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This is why you don't have FSD for airplanes. (of course, an argument could have been made that FSD would have handled the leak a little better)

I would say modern autoland (both GPS based and ILS types) systems are a little better when it comes to handling emergency issues like maximizing range and endurance but the problem with autoland is that they require a lot of things to work perfectly and will refuse to take any risk (autoland systems are not probabilistic like Tesla FSDs, they are mostly automatic traditional control systems). So if the plane will miss the threshold by a few feet the autoland won't even attempt it.

The 'never happen' events need a human. Like "birds. both engines. looks like we are setting it down on the Hudson".

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