Built To Fly On Its Own

Planes today are built to essentially fly themselves. 

Autopilot refers to a collection of systems that automate a plane’s operations.

The most common reason for plane crashes is human error, so it can be reassuring to know that aircraft are designed to be automated and, frankly, smarter than humans.

Airplanes are built with redundancies, so that if one system fails, there’s another to back it up. And today’s planes are built not only to operate normally, but to read changes in abnormal operations and adjust accordingly.