Captain Starts a Nose Dive / China Airlines Flight 006
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The Captain Overly Depends on the Auto Pilot
N thant concludes the captain overly relied on the auto pilot, and this was also causal to the accident. "He didn't notice theye entered a forty five degree bank angle now," N thant says of his co-pilot. He doesn't realize how much force is being exerted by the autopilot because he wasn't actually hands on with the yoke. And that's why it ended up, ye, that's why youth ended up in that upset position.
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