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Why don't airliners have external cameras for the pilots?
I was just reading that a 787 had to make an emergency landing in New Orleans for a mechanical issue. They did a flyby, and asked the tower to visually inspect a panel at the rear of the craft.
Given that these planes cost tens of millions of dollars, why wouldn't they have a rudimentary 'surveillance' system using small cameras so the pilots could see what is physically going on with the engines and external surfaces of the plane? Given aircrafts amazing level of technical sophistication at this point, this seems like a no brainer. Do modern commercial aircraft have these systems?
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