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Pilots Fell Asleep on Ethiopian Airlines Flight to Addis Ababa

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It has been reported that the pilots onboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 343 fell asleep whilst overflying Addis Ababa, its destination, at 37,000 feet. (aviationsourcenews.com) 기타...

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sparkie624 1년 전 8

LOL... Like that has never happened before... Reminds me of Northwest Airlines a number of years ago when the pilots overflew their destination for 2 hours not responding to ATC all because they had their laptops out working discussing pay.

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tom239 1년 전 4

Not two hours. ATC got no response when they radioed the plane at 7:24 PM (CDT). The pilots overflew their destination (MSP) at 7:58 and at 8:14 finally contacted ATC and said they'd been distracted. NW188 on Oct 21, 2009.

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sparkie624 1년 전 3

Thanks for the correction...

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Larry Toler 1년 전 3

Yep, that's the one I mentioned earlier.

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Stephen Phillips 1년 전 11

Just like US pilots that have done the same thing then linbb.

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coinflyer 1년 전 3

linbb?

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Larry Toler 1년 전 2

Wasn't it Northwest pilots who overshot MSP because they were so wrapped up talking about new scheduling procedures?

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Bayouflier 1년 전 3

That was their story, anyway.

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patrick baker 1년 전 4

so what is the solution to this incident? less comfortable pilot seats, occasional rock music set to blare in cockpit?, or how about the true, obvious solution: proper crew rest that errs on the side more rest than less rest. THere could be a system implimented that every few minutes makes a alarm clock noise that must be turned off and can not be stopped from making that noise. Pilots would find it an irritant and they would be awake to have that irritating feeling. I know of a LLoyd Air Bolivia flight coming into Miami once that the stews entered the cockpit , noticing that an overdue descent had not happened as of yet, and found three snoozing pilots. Pilots were better rested to perform descent and landing in this case. Miami ATC in this case and all others did not perform wake up services.

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Bob Spriggs 1년 전 2

Just like the "Dead Man" button on locos

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EMK69 1년 전 4

ROFL like none of us have never dozed off

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Tony Silverstrå 1년 전 4

He was counting cloud-sheep and fell asleep

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Kenneth Grimwood 1년 전 2

I heard of a papermill where the operators seats where one leg stools!!!

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Ciaran Kelly 1년 전 3

Terrible!

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Jeff Phipps 1년 전 17

Actually they're one of the best in Africa and have a fairly new fleet. I've flown with them a couple of times for business and their "Cloud 9" cabin and lounges are comparable with most big carriers. If you think these are the only 2 pilots that have screwed up, you haven't been following g aviation much. Doesn't make the whole operation crap.

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Andy Cruickshank 1년 전 12

Jeff, Everything he spews is directed towards non US airlines and he show no signs of changing his blatantly racist views. There is another post here by Stephen that mentions him, so he and his views are well known and suitably ignored.

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Roy Hunte 1년 전 5

So the Northwest pilots that did the same years ago were third world airline pilots too, eh?

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Pilots Fell Asleep on Ethiopian Airlines Flight to Addis Ababa

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