Who's Flying the Plane

Who's Flying the Plane

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S18 E24: Every time you board a plane, you put your trust in the pilots. And every time pilots enter the cockpit, they put their trust in computers. Usually, the marriage of automation and crew is a seamless one, but when it doesn't go perfectly, disaster can strike in an instant. Witness a series of air catastrophes brought on by miscommunications between pilots and their high-tech instruments and follow the investigations that revealed what happened. Then see how today’s pilots are trained to better understand their complicated, on-board equipment.