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By Pilar Wolfsteller2021-04-15T22:43:00+01:00 Autonomous aircraft company Xwing says its Cessna Grand Caravan 208B has completed its first ”fully autonomous gate-to-gate demonstration of a commercial cargo aircraft”. Xwing, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay area, says its specially outfitted Cessna Grand Caravan 208B conducted a flight that had it leave the gate, taxi, take-off, land and return to the gate entirely on its own. The company says on 15 April that the flight took place in February 2021 from and to Concord, California, and although video shows that there was a safety ...

Credibility that the autopilot may have been flying the airplane. the track that it maintained, it maintained that all the way to impact. that's another piece of evidence that says that the autoflight system may have been flying the airplane. what he said very carefully was that the airplane impacted the ground at high speed. that was evident from the pictures, but he verified that. so i think the comments from b.e.a. were appropriate and correct. he wouldn't be drawn into speculation. and he wouldn't commit to a timeline. in this case it's more important to be accurate than to be quick with t...