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The entire aviation business and safety structure is build on extraordinary rigidity to processes and approaches. In addition, automation is viewed as a threat to multiple worker groups.

Sometimes this is justified -certainly the MCAS incident is a example. Changes like the MCAS should never have been allowed to change a fundamental part of the airplane interface without considerably more processes being met. That said, sometimes opposition to enhancements is trade unionists being trade unionists.




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