Otto to the Rescue!
Hey, at least he didn’t fly over Ukraine by accident.
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Sitting next to an old Indian lady, who must have been the head cook, was not an olfactory enjoyable experience.
“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.
Maybe texting.
Sounds like the plane was supposed to be on auto-pilot and apparently wasn’t?
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.
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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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.
Some posters will claim its Tony Stewarts fault.
How does someone not realize they’ve dropped 5k feet? Unless it was a slow sink rate - but - shouldn’t they have been on auto-pilot? Boeing planes have an altitude deviation alert at 700’ +/- when auto is selected. You drop and it’ll bark at you. Naps aren’t that big a deal though. Canadian pilots are authorized power naps (just saying). ATC should have been monitoring and call ... anyway there has to be more to the story than the knee jerk reporting as they usually do...
Immediate termination and fining. Unless, of course, she is a member of a protected victim group, in which case she can fly and endanger other people.
Love reading this stuff while waiting to board an 11 hour flight. Ugh.