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When did they stop having a Flight Engineer on Boeing 747s?

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  • 2 months ago
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    The 747-400 introduced in 1989 was the first variant with a 2 crew cockpit.

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    when they realized that if anything goes wrong on a modern airplane there's nothing anyone can do and they are all doomed 

  • FanMan
    Lv 5
    2 months ago

    They didn't need them any more.  Jet engines are much less complicated than the piston engines on older  airliners.  But it took quite  some time to negotiate with the unions to  eliminate the positions.

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