Even if the black boxes from Air France flight AF447 are retrieved, the question remains: to what extent was this disaster caused by pilots thinking more like accountants or shareholders than as pilots?
Black boxes
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Beyond the black box
Much has been learned about what happened to AF447. That’s thanks to automated status messages relayed by the lost plane via satellite, writes Ben Sandilands, pointing to what will eventually replace black boxes.
