Staff report
Posted : Thursday Apr 1, 2010 19:41:57 EDT
Pilots flying an MQ-1B Predator in Afghanistan were so focused on a fierce firefight that they failed to notice the unmanned aircraft was headed toward a mountain, according to an investigation of the Oct. 3, 2009 crash.
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I agree with those who think the solution is less reliance on human pilots, the problem is a mathematical one, people are too easily distracted for math.
Google has data bases. The Garmin GPS in my cousins plane warns gives terrain warnings. (we were landing at a privet field not in the data base). The freakin predator should have kept its self away from the mountains. I think they're on auto except for landing and take off. The sat lag makes it hard to fly fpv when not near the airport. Tha''s when they fly FPV for landing with a direct link. Missions are controled from Nevada, take offs and landings are done locally and not by AFoficers.
I smell a cover up of embaresing technical flaws, as when we learned the video was not encripted.