An automatic emergency power generating system might have deployed on the 787 jet that crashed shortly after takeoff in India ...

Air India crash survivor Viswas Kumar Ramesh has been discharged from Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and is heading home to perform the last rites of his younger brother, who perished in the April 12 crash.

Takeoff is too critical for autopilot use, so pilots control the plane manually. Autopilot is typically engaged during climb, cruise, descent, and sometimes landing ...