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Podcast: IEN Radio
Episode: New Airplane Feature Could Save You If Your Pilot Can't
Description: In 2013, the National Transportation Safety Board told ABC News that 97 percent of the airplane fatalities that occurred didn’t happen on commercial flights, and that small planes were involved in an average of five accidents per day.Much of this goes back to a lack of pilot training, the NTSB said at the time. And it appears to be still true today, which is one of the reasons the avionics and navigation company Garmin has been developing a product that can take over in the event of an emergency and actually land an airplane with jus...