What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 - The transcript of the airplane black box recordings

[Complicated]

At approximately 2 am, the other co-pilot, David Robert, returns to the cockpit after a rest break. At 37, Robert is both older and more experienced than Bonin, with more than double his colleague's total flight hours. The head pilot gets up and gives him the left-hand seat. Despite the gap in seniority and experience, the captain leaves Bonin in charge of the controls.

 

At 2:02 am, the captain leaves the flight deck to take a nap. Within 15 minutes, everyone aboard the plane will be dead

http://www.popularmechanics.com/print-this/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877?page=all

[Som@li]

Very sad, many lives lost cuz pilot error, I am sure there will more similar accidents, till we get robot pilots.

[grasshopper]

very chilling to know what was possibly the last words of the pilots...

 

robot pilots? damn flying is already scary enough - i would never trust a computer to fly an airplane alone

[Som@li]

^ A robot would do what was designed to do, like the plane, and would not panic and forgot the basics, pulling up a stalling airplane?