The report identified factors that "could have made it more difficult for the student pilot to control the hang glider".
The big bar below the grid of buttons disengages the autopilot and gives the pilot full control of the aircraft.
The altitude at which the co-pilot handed control of the plane to his colleague was below the minimum altitude considered safe to continue final descent.
Some witnesses said the pilot appeared to deliberately turn the plane toward the vacant lot to avoid hitting people in the area, but Plagens said it was too early to say whether the pilot could control the plane.
Radio calls captured by the website LiveATC.net show the Spirit pilot warned ground control about limited space to maneuver.
For a few moments, it seemed that the pilot had lost control.
Such flights are broadly defined as those under the pilot's own control, and not necessarily under the guidance of air traffic controllers.
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"It is a matter for the investigation to decide whether it was a pilot or air traffic control problem, all the circumstances will be investigated".
Stressing that it was too soon to speculate about the cause of Wednesday's crash, he said the pilot appeared to have control of the plane a long way down its approach to the airport.
He said air traffic control contacted the pilot after noticing an unusual manoeuvre minutes after take-off and the pilot said his plane had hit a vulture.
Pentagon officials said it was five minutes after the time of impact before the mayday call was issued, indicating the pilot was struggling to regain control of the crippled plane.
He highlighted a similar case in 2004 when pilot disorientation and loss of control caused a Flash Airlines Boeing 737-300 to crash in the Red Sea shortly after take off from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh.
"Hey, that Japan Air may know it but they have fuel spewing out the leftward wing quite a bit, " the pilot of another plane told the control tower, which radioed the JAL crew and halted takeoff.
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The flight attendants contacted the pilot, who contacted UK air traffic control authorities, who then scrambled the fighter jets, he said.
York had a broken wrist and other injuries that investigators believe resulted from the pilot trying to free himself to regain control of the plane as it plummeted, according to the report.
Such automated systems are designed to eliminate confusion and missteps because they provide objective control and amount to "the only pilot in the cockpit without an ego, " according to Honeywell's Mr. Esposito.
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Europe also has controller-pilot text messaging in use at two air-traffic control centers, and should have its system fully implemented by 2015.
Among BAE Systems' plans, for example, is the co-operative control of drones, which would allow a pilot in a jet to fly with a squadron of the robot aircraft on surveillance or combat missions.
It's the first model to feature an interface powered by the PS2's Graphics Synthesizer and Emotion Engine chips, too, and comes with a clamshell, joystick-equipped remote control that looks like you could use it to pilot a plane and solve complex equations while you watch.
In a nondescript building, down a largely unmarked hallway, is a series of rooms, each with a rack of servers and a "ground control station, " or GCS. There, a drone pilot and a sensor operator sit in their flight suits in front of a series of screens.
"That guy passed us now and that was not good, " the pilot of American Airlines flight 951 told the controllers at New York Air Traffic Control Center, the country's busiest.
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"The described technique cannot engage or control the aircraft's autopilot system using the (Flight Management System) or prevent a pilot from overriding the autopilot, " the FAA said.
Investigators say the weight, wind factors, an ineffective pilot maneuver in response to an onboard alarm and a subsequent surprise yaw caused the aircraft to spin out of control.
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