Jet Airways Flight Drops 5,000ft as Pilot Takes a Nap; co-Pilot Busy Browsing on iPad

Emirates 24/7 ^ | Thursday, August 14, 2014 | Bindu Rai

[dfwgator]

Otto to the Rescue!

[McGruff]

Hey, at least he didn’t fly over Ukraine by accident.

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[lormand]

I've taken that exact same route to Mumbia. It crosses over some really hostile territories. My pucker factor was on 10 the entire time, even under a relaxant.

Sitting next to an old Indian lady, who must have been the head cook, was not an olfactory enjoyable experience.

[BunnySlippers]

He was flying the plane on his iPad app.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“co-Pilot Busy Browsing on iPad”

The headline makes it seem that the co-Pilot was busy updating her Facebook page, or some such. Meanwhile, in the article:

“the co-pilot said ... she was reading the flight manuals.”

That’s much more likely. Tablets have largely replaced the huge case of flight manuals, and maps that pilots take on board. If the co-pilot were reading a paper flight manual, we wouldn’t be reading any insinuations about that.

Also — the article implies that the pilot did something wrong by taking a nap. Not so. From what’s reported here, it looks like this is on the co-pilot (who should have been monitoring things better); but, that she was using the iPad for work.

[C210N]

The co-pilot, meanwhile, was busy on her tablet...

Maybe texting.

[Menehune56]

Sounds like the plane was supposed to be on auto-pilot and apparently wasn’t?

[socal_parrot]

I’m surprised. With the state of airplane wifi, there should be plenty of time to fly a plane while waiting for websites to load.

[Mears]

Aw,God and I have family members in the air now on a 5000 mile trip.

(I’m having fun tracking,though)

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[Kenny Bunk]

Welly welly sorry!

[wally_bert]

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-09-10/

[hummingbird]

"(I’m having fun tracking,though)"

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How do you do that?

My parents went on Alaska cruise and we were able to track with webcams in each port.

It was fun!

[publius911]

In a year that has witnessed a number of aviation episodes, a potential incident was averted when a Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Brussels dropped 5,000 feet in Ankara airspace while the pilot was having a ‘rest’.
The co-pilot, meanwhile, was busy on her tablet and reportedly claims she had no idea the plane had dropped in altitude.

This is really spooky.

Fourteen hours ago I was viewing Terror in the Skies, Ep9 Pilot Fatigue, on cable, which included an old Flight from India, as illustration of the age and extent of precisely this problem: apparently the common occurrence of naps during flight, in combination with copilot distraction in violation of the rules, or irrelevant idle conversation during a critical phase of flight.

That the pilots are always the first at the scene of the resulting fatal accident, is small comfort.

[publius911]

[She He was flying the plane on his[her] iPad app.

They have an app for that?
Really?

[publius911]

How do you do that?

Flightaware.com is the most common site used to track airline flights.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[BunnySlippers]

I saw it in a cartoon.

Couldn’t resist. : o)