Originally Posted by
C130driver
And saved everyone on board. Don't tell me a computer could do that. The only way this will happen is if airlines are dumb enough to assume the immense risks with this. Wait till one of these kills 200 passengers in the middle of America. Cargo maybe, pax? More than a century away.
That's exactly what I'm going to tell you... because a computer COULD do that.. and not submerge the aircraft in the process.
A computer wouldn't need to take time to ask the controller where are the surrounding airports; it would already know. It wouldn't have to call for and run checklists; they would be completed in a blink of an eye. It wouldn't have to take a wild ass guess on whether it could make a return back to La Guardia to land on a runway instead of on a river; it would know precisely how far it could glide given the state of the aircraft and the environmental conditions.
I'm not knocking Sully. He did a great job. Far better than most human pilots could have. But better than a computer? Nah