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Official: Missing plane sent 24 error messages

Official: Missing plane sent 24 error messages

Air France Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages -- including one saying the aircraft's autopilot had disengaged -- before it vanished with 228 people on board, aviation investigators said today.

 

Doomed Flight Was on Autopilot

A federal aviation official says the plane that crashed into a house near Buffalo, killing 50 people, was on autopilot when it went down, a possible violation of airline policy.

 

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