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How many pilots fly a plane?

Let’s start with one of the most iconic planes in commercial air travel – the classic Boeing 747. When it first launched in February 1969, this aeroplane required two pilots at the controls plus a flight engineer on the flight deck to monitor the equipment.

With the development of more modern computer systems, the role of the flight engineer was gradually replaced by technology. With computers even more advanced today, why do we still need two pilots? This is the trajectory

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