The plane has passed the destination airport, bo… the pilots fell asleep
An Air India plane has passed its destination airport in Mumbai, because both pilots fell asleep – he published the newspaper on Thursday ”Times of India”. The incident happened two weeks ago. There were approx 100 passengers. The plane departed Dubai at approx 01.00 in the night, and approx 7.00 landed in Jaipur (in the state of Rajasthan in northwest India). From there, he flew to Bombay in the west of India. – After the overnight flight, however, the level of fatigue is very high and both pilots fell asleep after taking off from Jaipur – said an anonymous informant. The plane was piloted automatically and when the Mumbai tower contacted the cockpit to initiate the landing procedure, the machine was still flying at high altitude towards the Goa resort. – Only when the plane was over Bombay, the control tower realized, that the pilots did not answer. We even thought, that there was a kidnapping – the journal learned from the same source. Eventually, the air traffic controllers sounded the cockpit alarm and woke the pilots, who turned back. Air India officials said, that they are gathering information about it “incident”. The director of the airport in Mumbai, however, assured, that the pilots did not fall asleep, and it only happened “communication problem”. However, we advise you to equip the pilot's cabin in… alarm clocks.
Perhaps this simple device will protect the Indian air force from similar accidents.
The plane has passed the destination airport, bo… the pilots fell asleep
