Heh, good luck trying to push an automation technology that a pilot can't disable. You're right, there probably are situations where that makes sense, but they would be very rare edge cases. And pilots really do hate being taken out of the control loop. Ideally they really don't want there to be any computer action that doesn't have an override (which I think generally makes sense).

What bug? It worked as it was supposed to.

There was a loss of cabin pressure (a real emergency) and it decided the pilots were unresponsive. The pilots could have taken control back, but by not doing that, they were functionally unresponsive. I don't see a bug here.

The first automatic landing of a commercial airliner was apparently in 1965. So yeah it was just the entire process for this individual emergency system by this company being call a first as well. 60 years ago apparently we succeeded, which makes sense, 4 years before we landed on the moon, believe that was 69'

This falls in the same category as the MCAS crashes. An automated system wrested control from the pilots, and the system evidently could not be disabled. That is the exact scenario that caused the MCAS crashes.

The only thing though, is that is absolutely not what happened here, at all.

Here's a quote from the (quite short) article:

Autoland “automatically engaged exactly as designed when the cabin altitude exceeded the prescribed safe levels” and the pilots “made the decision to leave the system engaged,” Townsley said

The pilots saw the warnings and presumably could have taken over by doing just about anything, but with no passengers to put in jeopardy, they decided to sit back and see what happened.

There is no flaw here, no bug, this is not a problem. This is what happens when everything works.

Edit: Well, not everything was working, that beechcraft does have to have its pressurization system checked out for sure.

Yea not every airport has a tower. The Garmin system cannot detect obstructions. It announces an intent to land and lands.

pany CEO Chris Townsley in a statement. Autoland “automatically engaged exactly as designed when the cabin altitude exceeded the prescribed safe levels” and Townsley said.

the pilots “made the decision to leave the system engaged,”

the pilots made the decision

The cabin lost pressure, it activated because an emergency happened. Then the pilots decided to leave it on to see if it worked during an actual emergency situation.

The very short article covered these details lol.