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Air India pilots suspended for handing control of plane for 40 minutes to Stewardesses

10 yıl önce eklendi

Two Air India pilots put the lives of 166 passengers on a Bangkok-Delhi flight in danger by taking a 40-minute break from the cockpit and getting two stewardesses to operate the plane in their absence. Their stunt almost ended in disaster after one of the stewardesses accidentally turned off the auto-pilot, forcing the pilots to rush back to their seats. The incident took place 33,000 feet in the air on Air India flight AI 133 (an Airbus 321) from Bangkok to Delhi on April 12, which took off… (www.mumbaimirror.com) Daha Fazlası...

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Marcus Pradel 10 yıl önce 8

Did both Pilots need to take time off? Now they have it..!

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BC Hadley 10 yıl önce 6

"Captain Soni did not leave the cockpit immediately; instead, he spent a few minutes teaching the two stewardesses how to operate the aircraft." I had no idea it was that easy to fly an Airbus.

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THRUSTT 10 yıl önce 3

The good Capt. more than likely provided good instruction on manipulating the joystick...

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Toby Sharp 10 yıl önce 6

LOL.......unbelievable

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bashdan 10 yıl önce 3

When you have to pray, you have to pray.....I guess!

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Torsten Hoff 10 yıl önce 3

They were merely suspended for that stunt?

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WALLACE24 10 yıl önce 2

Taking naps? They must have been drunk too!

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sparkie624 10 yıl önce 2

That reminds me a good number of years ago, a fellow work mate went to pickup a 727 to bring it down to the gate. It was before TSA, so he took his girlfriend up and let her ride in the FO's seat. While taxing down, he told her she could drive using the yolk... To this day, she thinks she really taxied the plane.... And before anyone asks.. Yes she was Blonde... And it showed :)

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THRUSTT 10 yıl önce 1

Those blondes!!!

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Elizabeth Robillard 10 yıl önce 3

Hey! I resemble that remark.

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sparkie624 10 yıl önce 2

I noticed (LOL)

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CyranoSmith 10 yıl önce 2

Sounds like a Michael Crichton novel ...

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sparkie624 10 yıl önce 2

That is a big no no... A number of years back a Russian Aeroflot Airbus 310, capt let his son handle the controls and caused a crash with all lives lost.

More details of this at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593

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chalet 10 yıl önce 2

Dragging both pilots añlong the main throughfares of Dehli or Bombay in broad daylight and then drump whatever if left of them in the nearest garbage pit would not be enough. Never will fly Air India again.

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Brian Nasset 10 yıl önce 2

And they wonder when I fly internatioanl I get nervous

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Toby Sharp 10 yıl önce 1

They were taking a hooka break

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Michael Fuquay 10 yıl önce 1

I wonder what the stewardesses were wearing. Don't tell me that wasn't a factor.

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WALLACE24 10 yıl önce 1

Would have been safer to leave the cockpit empty and let the stews join in the nap.

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Gene spanos 10 yıl önce 1

So much for Fly Quiet.......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

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FedExCargoPilot 10 yıl önce 1

Shouldn't F/As have some knowledge of how to fly an airplane if they are allowed to sit so close to the controls? They might as well have asked for a private pilot if they needed a break.

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sparkie624 10 yıl önce 1

Yes, but not during a revenue flight, and I understand the pilot left the flight deck.

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joel wiley 10 yıl önce 1

Wouldn't have been a problem if they all hadn't canned the FE position.

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doug marshburn 10 yıl önce 1

Mile high club in reverse !

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THRUSTT 10 yıl önce 1

Well if management didn't give themselves big raises, and paid the pilots more, this wouldn't happen. More importantly these were hot Flight Attendants!!!

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btweston 10 yıl önce 1

Pretty rad, if you ask me.

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chalet 10 yıl önce 0

The age old principle aloft seems to have been observed here: the stews came to the cockpit and asked them pilots coffee, tea or me............ and then something happened (LIMAO!!!!).

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joel wiley 10 yıl önce -2

Well, did the officers order the air-hostesses to take their positions? If so, I guess the defence "we were only following orders" isn't valid in the air.

I'd have thought Cpt Soni would have judged it a good idea to include in his instructions Don't flip that switch, it turns off the autopilot. But then, there are other reasons to question his judgement, I suppose. Although I wasn't there, who am I to judge?

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