In Flight...
Posted on 11/23/2022 5:55:39 AM PST by shadowlands1960
An Envoy Air pilot passed out while taking off from Chicago O’Hare International Airport and was later pronounced dead, officials said on Tuesday. The co-pilot took control of the plane and managed to land safely.
The incident involved Envoy Air Flight 3556, an Embraer E175 aircraft, which was scheduled to fly to Columbus, Ohio on Saturday night. The flight was flown for American Eagle, which – like Envoy Air – is part of American Airlines.
An Envoy Air pilot passed out while taking off from Chicago O’Hare International Airport and was later pronounced dead, officials said on Tuesday. The co-pilot took control of the plane and managed to land safely.
The incident involved Envoy Air Flight 3556, an Embraer E175 aircraft, which was scheduled to fly to Columbus, Ohio on Saturday night. The flight was flown for American Eagle, which – like Envoy Air – is part of American Airlines.
“We need to return. Captain is incapacitated,” the co-pilot told air traffic control just seconds after taking off from Chicago’s international airport. The plane landed safely a short time later.
“Despite heroic efforts to revive him, Captain in training, Patrick Ford, passed away,” Ric Wilson, the Vice President of Flight Operations at Envoy Air, said in a message to fellow pilots. “We are deeply saddened by this loss.”
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating the incident. Aviation sources said Ford died of a heart attack, though officials were not able to confirm that.
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In Flight...
Standard suspicions regarding certain unnamed vaccines.....
What if the pilot and co-pilot both become incapacitated on the same flight?
As a pilot he was probably forced to be vax’d. They all were...
Then there will be an additional 400 covid deaths on the ground
After reading the news this week, I’m staying home and avoiding trips, Walmart, nightclubs, and college towns.
That would sort of be like lightening striking twice?
Ted Striker, who has a drinking problem, takes over the controls…
Then you use OTTO PILOT!...................
Safe and effective.
Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot
Regulators are pushing the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to examine ways of making single pilot operations the eventual norm in commercial flights.
In a working paper [PDF] filed with the aviation standards body, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) requested on behalf of member states that the “necessary enablers” be created “for a safe and globally harmonized introduction of commercial air transport (CAT) operations of large aeroplanes with optimised crew/single-pilot operations while ensuring an equivalent or higher level of safety compared to that achieved in current operations.”
There are two obvious drivers for the proposal – cost cutting and crew shortages. Technology has over decades reduced the need for more people in the cockpit and the hope seems to be that further improvements can pare the current two down to one.
“One of the driving factors for the industry to propose taking advantage of the introduction of these new concepts of operations is a foreseen reduction in operating costs,” the paper says, though it does note: “Potential additional costs related to higher-level ground support and two-way communications should also be considered. On the aircraft manufacturer side, the development and certification of new cockpit designs and associated systems may require significant investment, although these will likely produce safety benefits and savings in the medium/long term.”
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/21/pilot_single/
Don’t let them make you live in fear.
You’re screwed.
“Safe and effective”
I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather; not screaming in terror like his passengers — an old joke.
That thing in Idaho coud make me be kinda fearful.
just sayin’
What kind of nightclubs to you frequent?
We probably aren’t far from automated flight.
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