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Pontifications: Remote control of airliners a bad idea

March 30, 2015: In the aftermath of what a French prosecutor said was the apparent suicide-mass murder of 150 people on Germanwings 9525, there have been some calls for and questions of creating a system of allowing ground… Read More

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 Posted on March 30, 2015 by Scott Hamilton

 Airlines, Germanwings, Malaysian Airlines, McDonnell Douglas, MH370, Pontifications

     A320, Airbus, BAe-146, Boeing, DC-10-30F, Federal Express, Germanwings, Germanwings 2595, JetBlue, Malaysia Airlines, MH370, Pontifications, PSA

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