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>This one is interesting because the explanation is "our flagship aircraft has a kill-everyone-onboard switch on the pilot chair that someone pushed".

Wait till you hear about the yoke, or any of the other flight controls.



I suppose opinion is divided on whether the pilot should be able to crash at will. There's a copilot involved partly on those grounds.

Somewhere there's a flow chart missing an exclusive or on adjusting the seat position and putting the plane into a dive. And another one that failed to put the control out of the way of people walking around.


>Somewhere there's a flow chart missing an exclusive or on adjusting the seat position and putting the plane into a dive

"Plane crashed because the seat adjustment button got jammed and locked the pilot out of his controls, and he didn't this until it was too late"

>And another one that failed to put the control out of the way of people walking around.

Other comments in this thread has linked to videos that show the button is behind a cover.




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