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Sleeping Pilots Overshot Airport by 359 Miles
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:15 pm
by Jason_B
Yikes. Hope these guys aren't allowed to fly anymore, or start giving them stronger coffee or something.
An Air India flight soared past its Mumbai destination on June 4 as its pilots allegedly dozed off in the cockpit, The Times of India reported Thursday.
The napping pilots flew 359 miles past the airport and were still at cruising altitude when nervous air traffic controllers woke them up.
The flight, which was on autopilot flying toward Mumbai, had about 100 passengers on board.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,372008,00.html
Re: Sleeping Pilots Overshot Airport by 359 Miles
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:07 pm
by george_r_1961
Always nice to hear safety is a priority isnt it?
Re: Sleeping Pilots Overshot Airport by 359 Miles
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:08 pm
by Category 5
Note to self: never fly air india.
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:26 pm
by KWT
Wow seriously even at the speed it travels at that still got to be a good old dose they were having!
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:30 pm
by HURAKAN
Re: Sleeping Pilots Overshot Airport by 359 Miles
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:39 pm
by tropicana
this just seems impossible to believe. Just crazy.
-justin-
Re: Sleeping Pilots Overshot Airport by 359 Miles
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:13 am
by HurricaneBill
"This is your captain speaking. Zzzzzzzzzzzz.........."
Re: Sleeping Pilots Overshot Airport by 359 Miles
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:41 pm
by abajan
Category 5 wrote:Note to self: never fly air india.
Do you think this can only happen on Air India? As crazy as this incident may seem, I think it can happen with any airline (including those based in the US). Nowadays, flight crews are notoriously sleep deprived.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:20 pm
by KWT
Yeah I agree it probably can happen to any company still to fall asleep for that long isn't good stuff is it really!
Re: Sleeping Pilots Overshot Airport by 359 Miles
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:46 pm
by MGC
I believe this happened to a US crew a few years ago. They flew a couple of hundred miles past Hawaii because both pilots were taking a nap......MGC
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:24 am
by ohiostorm
It most certainly could happen to US crews. More pilots are getting furloughed and others are working more and more hours, especially with long ground delays lately.
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:29 pm
by KWT
I just wonder how many time this sort of thing has happened, it must happen every now and then and I bet even some of the best of them sometimes have those micronaps which last a few seconds.
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:13 pm
by pojo
you would be surprised what happens when the autopilot is kicked on..... one pilot is SUPPOSED to have positive control of the aircarft/radios when the other is sleeping.... that doesn't always happen.... thankfully on military carriers, all crew positions have ATC up... I've had to stop ordinary conversations because ATC called...
Most commerical pilots work 16 hour days... and have numerous legs... especially the regional carriers... the main carriers do a little less.
