Pilot and coopilot fall asleep in plane.

[Ponce]

Unable to capture this article....can you do it?........... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224660/Plane-terrifying-The-passenger-jet-pilots-falling-asleep-cockpit--sole-charge-aircraft.html

thanks.....

[freespirit]

her ya go, Ponce...


How passenger plane was left with no-one at the controls after BOTH pilots fell asleep



The pilots were alone at the controls of the aircraft
Under new rules imposed last month, they can now be awake for 22 hours while on the job
Four out of ten pilots already report nodding off in-flight - of whom a third awoke to find their co-pilot also sleeping

By EMMA REYNOLDS (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Emma+Reynolds)
PUBLISHED: 08:44 GMT, 29 October 2012 | UPDATED: 09:57 GMT, 29 October 2012


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Two pilots fell asleep while in sole charge of passenger planes thousands of feet up in the air.
Their co-pilots had been on the flight deck at the time and both had been alone in the cockpit, the Civil Aviation Authority revealed.

One one occasion, the captain left to use the toilet and then tried to radio his first officer - but got no reply.


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/29/article-0-03C70AD7000005DC-423_468x329.jpgDangerous: Their co-pilots returned from breaks to find them slumped over the controls, the Civil Aviation Authority admitted

He then had to use a code to get back into the cockpit and found his second-in-command slumped over the controls.

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In the other case flagged up, a pilot returning from his break had to use the entry code to get into the cockpit.
He then shook his co-pilot awake, the authority revealed, in response to a Freedom of Information request by The Sun.

A third pilot was found asleep in the cockpit when his plane was on the ground.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/29/article-2224660-15529E2B000005DC-670_233x434.jpgCriticised: Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin was accused of 'rolling over to Brussels' after his department approved a rule change to extend flying hours last month

The identities of the airlines involved were not revealed.

Just last month, pilots' groups raised concerns that new flying hours imposed by the EU could lead to precisely this problem.
Under the new rules, pilots could be landing commercial jets after 22 hours awake - including 11 hours flying, plus stand-by time and travel to the airport.
MPs had warned in their original report that 22 hours of wakefulness was ‘an extraordinary figure’ - particularly for night flying - that raised levels of fatigue equivalent to being ‘drunk.’
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin was accused of ‘rolling over to Brussels’ after his department approved the rules despite the concerns raised in a report by the respected Commons’ Transport Select committee.
UK pilots can currently go up to 18 hours without sleep - but more than four out of ten pilots already report nodding off in-flight - of whom a third awoke to find their co-pilot also asleep.
Despite accepting the new rules, the Government did accept some of the MP’s findings - including a recommendation to investigate ‘ the potential under-reporting of pilot fatigue’.

Ministers said they would also be seeking a strengthening of specific EU ‘fatigue’ rules surrounding flight duties and rest periods and ‘stricter limits’ on how frequently airlines could use discretion to exceed maximum levels.


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[Neuro]

The reason they fall asleep is that these planes practically fly themselves. If they really don't want pilots to fall asleep, they should fire the stewardesses and the pilots could do the serving of the lunches while in midair...

btw mandate that pilots are beautiful women under the age of thirty!

[Serpo]

Gee thats reassuring that pilots can go for so long with out sleep

They are completely fu#ked and looking after hundreds of passengers.......