[EdwardDiego]

Exactly - the computer had switched contexts, but the pilot hadn't. And expecting pilots to switch their mental map of expected behaviour when the computer does (and did so with, from the accounts I read, very minimal indication that it had done so) during a high stress situation, is asking for trouble.

[acqq]

The indications were different alerts continuously sounding. It’s a complex problem, there’s a lot that can go wrong at once.

[salawat]

This is my number one objection to over-reliance on automation.

Every piece of software is a mechanism. In order to truly be able to safely use something without outside aid, one must have a complete mental map of the mechanics of the system in question. Abstraction helps; but not when you start getting into high-risk contexts.

[hef19898]

One of the best explanations I have read on that issue. Short and accurately summing it up.