The Tragedy That Changed Air Travel Forever
China Airlines Flight 140 crashed because the autopilot refused to let pilots manually control the pitch. This 1994 Airbus A300 crash is one of the deadliest examples of automation confusion and outdated flight logic, leading to 264 deaths during a failed go-around in Japan. In this short, we break down the moment-by-moment errors, system behaviors, and what changed in aviation after the crash.
