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Pilots Nap While A320 Drifts Off Course
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| 3.10.2024
| Russ Niles
Posted on 03/12/2024 7:38:49 AM PDT by libh8er
The 32-year-old captain of a Batik Air A320 and his 28-year-old FO (and the new father of month-old twins) have been suspended after they both fell asleep and the aircraft drifted off course. The Airbus, with 159 people on board, took off from Kendari, on the island of Sulawesi, for the 2.55-hour flight to Jakarta on Jan. 25.
About a half-hour later after reaching cruise, the captain asked the FO for permission to nap in his seat and nodded off for an hour. He woke and asked the FO if he wanted to take a rest but the FO declined and the captain went back to sleep. The FO subsequently “inadvertently fell asleep” according to Indonesian authorities and the two slumbered together for at least 28 minutes before the caption woke up and got the plane back on course.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: a320; batikair
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posted on
03/12/2024 7:38:49 AM PDT
by
libh8er
To: libh8er
What good is autopilot if you can’t catch 40 winks during the boring part of the flight?
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posted on
03/12/2024 7:44:34 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: Yo-Yo
THis sounds like another psyop, this one to pave the way to pilotless airliners.
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posted on
03/12/2024 7:46:06 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
To: libh8er
I worked for 6+ months on the night shift (11PM-7AM) in a hospital ER. I couldn’t sleep to save my life...I was a zombie. I’ve also done a lot of flying in my day...long,east- west flights. During those flights I’ve wondered about the pilot’s sleep habits....if he was asleep at the wheel.
To: libh8er; 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; ...
Aviation Ping!...................
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posted on
03/12/2024 7:47:32 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Yo-Yo
Somebody has to stay awake to keep him inflated...
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posted on
03/12/2024 7:48:43 AM PDT
by
null and void
(There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
To: libh8er
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posted on
03/12/2024 7:49:32 AM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
To: null and void
"There's a manual inflation tube along the beltline..."
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posted on
03/12/2024 7:51:16 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: libh8er
Sounds like those two boys needed some of the “medicine” they gave Joey for his state of the union adress.
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posted on
03/12/2024 7:55:55 AM PDT
by
kawhill
(kawhill)
To: C210N
THis sounds like another psyop, this one to pave the way to pilotless airliners.It looks to me that pilotless aircraft tend to drift.
10
posted on
03/12/2024 7:56:19 AM PDT
by
BlackbirdSST
(Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
03/12/2024 7:57:32 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Bratch
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posted on
03/12/2024 7:59:29 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Bratch
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posted on
03/12/2024 8:05:46 AM PDT
by
nwrep
To: libh8er
Are they not allowed to push a switch once in a while?
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posted on
03/12/2024 8:27:44 AM PDT
by
sasquatch
(Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
To: sasquatch
That was an Airbus.
If the pilot or FO touched anything the dog would bite them.
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posted on
03/12/2024 8:31:47 AM PDT
by
Glennb51
To: null and void
I see what you did there!
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posted on
03/12/2024 8:43:04 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
To: libh8er
............in today’s screwed up world regarding “people” in general, airlines one day soon will have to put video cameras in the cockpit so the whole plane can keep an eye on them.
To: null and void
Who? Me?? *TOTALLY innocent look*...
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posted on
03/12/2024 8:59:31 AM PDT
by
null and void
(There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
To: C210N
THis sounds like another psyop, this one to pave the way to pilotless airliners.
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posted on
03/12/2024 9:01:00 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: libh8er
HERE is a Wikipedia article about Northwest/Delta Flight 188 from 2009 where the pilots on a flight from San Diego overshot Minneapolis by 100 miles and had no radio contact once they were past Denver. Some think they fell asleep. They say they were distracted. Wild stuff.
HERE is a video that was put together. Actual pilot audio starts at around 11 minutes in. Interesting that ATC had them do some maneuvers to prove they were in control of the aircraft.
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