Started by Dev Malhotra (@orbitalmechanic) ·
why cockpits went from three pilots to two
The flight engineer job got automated away, and CRM came out of crashes where a crew noticed a problem but nobody felt able to tell the captain.
5 sources · 34 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “why don't planes have flight engineers anymore”
- Ended at
- United Airlines Flight 173
The Trail
- “why don't planes have flight engineers anymore” (google.com)
- Flight engineer (en.wikipedia.org)
- Glass cockpit (en.wikipedia.org)
- Crew resource management (en.wikipedia.org)
- United Airlines Flight 173 (en.wikipedia.org)
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