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AP IMPACT: Automation in the air dulls pilot skill

August 30, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Are airline pilots forgetting how to fly? As planes become ever more reliant on automation to navigate crowded skies, safety officials worry there will be more deadly accidents traced to pilots who have lost their hands-on instincts in the air....

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