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Automatons and Automations: Computers Continue to Perplex Pilots

Steve Scott

Monday, January 24th, 2005

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Crash investigations again highlight prominence of human error and mode confusion Ever since computers and airplanes came together, modal confusion and pilot perplexity have gone hand in hand. Now and again they hook up with grave consequences and there's an unintended outcome. Herewith we provide two such examples. The first, the June 2003 controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) fatal crash of a Canadair RJ near Brest, France, is fairly simple. The crew missed a step, stumbled, and the pilot died…

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