[Interesting Times]

Try this. The pilot suffers an major heart attack and trys radioing an SOS, but he dies. Does the plane know how to fly or land itself?

No, but in your scenario it knows how to descend carefully to about 350 feet, level off, line itself up on the largest building in Milan and strike it dead center at the height calculated to do the maximum damage.

It's possible that this is an accident, but extremely unlikely.

[texlok]

No, but in your scenario it knows how to descend carefully to about 350 feet, level off, line itself up on the largest building in Milan and strike it dead center at the height calculated to do the maximum damage.

Have you ever seen autopilot kick in? Could be he had one of the better autopilots on board, and it kicked in at some point and pointed at the airport, and the building was in the way.

I believe the newer autopilots can do everything but the first and last few hundred feet.