An airplane has, for the first time, automatically landed itself after an in-flight emergency, according to the system’s manufacturer.
Two people emerged unscathed from the Beechcraft Super King Air 200 after it stopped on the runway at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport near Denver, according to video posted by emergency responders.
The twin-engine turboprop landed under the control of Garmin’s Autoland system, which the company says is now installed on about 1,700 airplanes. “This was the first use of Autoland from start-to-finish in an actual emergency,” Garmin said in a statement.
Having control wrested from you in an emergency or not is relevent. Boeings MCAS comes to mind.
The cabin lost pressure, it activated because an emergency happened. Then the pilots decided to leave it on to see if it worked during an actual emergency situation.
The very short article covered these details lol.