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Link between the cockpit controls and the flight controls on the tail, the rudder and the wings. what happens is is the pilot controls the control wheel and the control yoke and the throttles are connected to flight computers that interpret the pilot's input. if the computer accepts the inputs it then transmits that data to the aircraft flight controls. what happens is some pilots have reported loss of control of the aircraft without any pilot input. this has been a problem dogging the airbus series since its inception and fundamentally these computers have computer code just like every other ...

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Perspective? or anything that would not allow them to contact an air traffic control. >> it would have to be a event that was so consuming, where it required both pilots to be on the flight controls trying to handle the airplane, and because of that that, you know, situation, it consumed them, because typically, as a pilot, it's aviate, navigate and communicate. you're going to do whatever it takes to maintain control of the airplane before you make any kind of radio call. >> that makes sense there. >> let's talk about the oil slicks. what do you make of those? there's two, supposed to be very...

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