Batik Air, one of Indonesia’s prominent airlines, is under scrutiny following reports that pilots fell asleep during a recent flight, prompting author
For anyone wondering about the co-pilot “flight attendants discovered that both pilots were allegedly asleep in the cockpit”
@HubertManne jus funny things if both of them fall a sleep
How do you discover that something is alleged? I get that you gotta slap that shit in there somewhere so ain’t get sued, but why the fuck not “flight attendants allegedly discovered both pilots asleep in the cockpit.”
no clue. I just tend to paste parts of articles that answer questions I had in my head from the headline.
I thought this sort of thing happened pretty often across all airlines, but was generally kept quiet.
Human pilots are only really needed at take-off, landing and in case of emergency. Once a plane is in the air, flight paths are pretty much fixed by the aviation authorities and the autopilot does basically everything. The pilot and co-pilot don’t have much to do, get bored and doze off.
They’re never supposed to be asleep at the same time, of course, but I would not be surprised if the other accidentally drifts off when the first is already taking a more official nap, especially on long haul flights.