CNN New Day December 29, 2014 12:21:00
What are your thoughts on that? do you think that could have been a potentially contributing factor here? >> it's not so much relying on auto pilot, itself it's relying on the entire suite of avionics that now restt this cockpit. so much particularly particularly the airbus and a 320 so much of that aircraft is designed for the pilots to not to be so much involved with the mechanics of flying but rather mechanics of monitoring systems and aviation and aeronautics. that's really the why. many pilots many trainers. many of those people responsible, the teaching pilots today say not enough pilots...
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