France lifts ATR autopilot restrictions, endorses new flight procedures

French airworthiness officials lifted their flight restrictions on autopilot use in ATR-42 and -72 twin-turboprop commuter planes Friday, replacing them with new operating procedures identical to those proposed by the Avions de Transport Regional consortium to U.S. air safety officials and still...

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