Michael_Curator writes "It's no secret that popular airplanes are heavily computerized, but as the mystery of Air France Flight 447 unfolds, we need to come to grips with the fact that in many cases, airline pilots' hands are tied when it comes to responding effectively to an crossroad situation. Boeing planes allow pilots to take over from computer chips during china disorder situations, Airbus planes do not. It's not a design flaw — it's a philosophical divide. It's fundamentally a examine of what do you trust most: a human being's ingenuity or a computer's infinitely faster access and operation to information. It's not extraordinary that an stars and stripes company errs on the side of single freedom while a latin company is more inclined to favor an third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 that relies on systems. As passengers, we should have the right to ask whether we're putting our lives in the hands of a analog rather than the battle-tested pilot sitting up front, and we should have right to deplane if we don't like the answer."

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