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Originally Posted by OMEGAMAN
Maybe some of you pilots can weigh in on this but I heard that quite a few plane crashes occur because of the pilot forgetting what his primary job is FLY THE PLANE. When something goes wrong mechanically with the plane they are wondering what just happened instead of flying the plane and loose control.
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This is true. One of the more famous incidents of this was Eastern Airlines
L1011 that crashed in the Florida Everglades. The problem was a bad landing gear light. All the crew members got wrapped up in trying to figure out if the gear was down and lock or not. The plane's autopilot was accidentally disconnected. No one was flying the plane and the plane slowly descended into to swamp.