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At the time of writing, the existing controversy of the two Boeing 737 MAX8 aircraft brought to bear the effect of the digital world on aviation. A faulty digital application had overridden human intervention, leaving the “confident” flight crew baffled and helpless in their control of the aircraft, resulting in the loss of lives of several hundreds of passengers.
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Abeyratne, R. (2020). The Digital Age. In: Aviation in the Digital Age. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48218-3_3
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