MD-11 autopilot 'not acceptable,' NTSB warns
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, citing two accidents, said yesterday that the autopilot systems on Boeing MD-11 airliners are "not acceptable" and that the FAA should require them to be modified to "prevent upsets from occurring when manual inputs to the flight controls are made." FAA...
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