{"id":21037,"date":"2013-07-18T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/?p=21037"},"modified":"2013-07-18T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T14:10:57","slug":"pilots-challenged-by-monitoring-automated-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/pilots-challenged-by-monitoring-automated-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots challenged by monitoring automated systems","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON \u2013 Airline pilots spend nearly all their time monitoring automated cockpit systems rather than “hand-flying” planes, but their brains aren’t wired to continually pay close attention to instruments that rarely fail or show discrepancies.<\/p>\n
As a result, pilots may see but not register signs of trouble, a problem that is showing up repeatedly in accidents and may have been a factor in the recent crash landing of a South Korean airliner in San Francisco, industry and government experts say.<\/p>\n