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by 6stringmerc 1382 days ago
Okay you just gave me a mental image of an Airbus autopilot system so angry at you it starts swearing in French. Totally agree with safety and ‘normal use case this is not’ situation.
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Bombardiers will issue a stream of Québec sacres:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity

It kind of does already: https://youtu.be/vmbzKsqKQoI#t=30s
Defaulting back to it's `native` language (of the programmers). That would be hilarious and should be on the next AirPlane spoof.

Mel Brooks, where are you!

I thought about a cartoon robot articulated arm with a white glove trying to wrestle the control column from the pilot.
Or the autopilot computer ejects by itself with a small parachute. Very Looney Tunes!