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General News 6/13/2009 at 9:05 PM EDT

Computer Piloting & Air France Crash

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How the Air France Flight 447's Airbus A330 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean remains a mystery, but what is known is that Airbus' heavy reliance on computerized piloting has a history of some bizarre or unexplained crashes when the technology failed, misread the circumstances, or complicated efforts by human pilots to react to an emergency.

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