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Unqualified Passenger Allegedly Took Control Of A Passenger Flight Over Russia
According to reports coming out of Russia an unqualified young woman was allowed to fly a passenger plane on a scheduled flight in Siberia. If you have had safety doubts about flying with a Russian airline your reservations could be right following a video of a woman passenger flying a passenger plane on a regularly scheduled flight. Extraordinary footage has appeared of the woman sitting in the co-pilots seat aboard an IrAero flight over Siberia. The footage of a young woman in her 20s flying… (siberiantimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
She looked qualified to me.
Sounds like a flashback to the 1960's when there were stories about stewardess landing commercial airlines.
The article reports that the airline was found in 1999. I wonder who lost it.
Are we sure it was a revenue flight and not a repositioning flight? A fair amount of these aircraft are cargo only, so for the sake a’cool’ factor, the narrative of the actual circumstances may have been embellished
A Google search for "08824" (number clearly visible on top of control column in video) reveals RA-08824 Antonov An-24PB IrAero (Flightradar24).
Sorry, post should read "a Google search for AIRCRAFT 08824"
thank you! I knew someone would sort it..