to exert influence here in hong kong. we ve seen that intensify in one of the most important sectors of life here, which is the financial sector fairly recently. am i still on the line now? you are, will. we can hear you. okay, the line was ringing on my end. so as i was saying, there have been some incidents recently involving beijing influence on the financial sector. for example, cafe pacific, they had employees participate in a demonstration. then mainland china said any crew who participated in illegal protests in hong kong would not be able to fly over chinese air space or in and out of mainland china, which would cut into like 50% of their business. so what did the airline do? they fired a couple pilots, warned employees not to participate in these kinds of political events. their ceo resigned. so you re seeing a company operating in a free economy like hong kong under the influence of
what he told to investigators, he should have studied it a little bit more. as we have been reporting, brooke, we know that investigators are concerned about pilots overreliance on these automated cockpit systems and today at the hearing, we just saw, still going on, they questioned an expert about how the systems work. take a listen. we accept the fact that pilots, as all humans, make errors. we try to make errors that can be corrected. and noticed. and lastly, at least for today, as we apply automation as a tool to aid the pilot, not replace the pilot. all right, so just like cruise control in a car, it does not replace the driver. and in this case, we know that the pilot thought that the automated system was preset to a specific speed. but it turns out the system was not engaged. problematic, one last thing, brooke, we spoke to a couple pilots. they say this suggested a couple
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