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The autopilot requires the ILS to land the plane. If the ILS is inoperative, it can't autoland. However pilots do still land planes to keep their skills honed.

• vl 13y ago
  Presumably GPS and/or visual recognition system can be used to achieve the same, after all airstrip location is know in advance.
  • yutyut 13y ago
    Presumably, the visual recognition system in this case was a human.