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Pilot flies past destination after "falling asleep"
A pilot overshot his destination by nearly 50 Kilometers after 'falling asleep at the switch'. He was however able to turn around and make it to his destination. -Daily Mail (www.dailymail.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I can understand him falling asleep. While I was just aircrew, I had to ensure we saw other aircraft were in sight and that we would not run afoul of them, as well as other duties while flying. Still, just flying the pattern and saying "clear left" was tiresome and every now and then, I would doze off. Luckily, we never had a collision with the GA pilots from John Wayne International that could not stay west of the big yellow MCAS that denoted Tustin's airspace 2 blocks west from the base's fenceline.
"The data (...) showed the trip was one of seven flights flown that day". It seems we have fatigue and excessive working hours / legs as a contributing factor for this incident. Fact is that single pilot operations should the exception and never the rule, specially on charter flights like that.
At Airventure, the FAA lecturer told of a crash in which the pilot ran into a mountain because of falling asleep.
He did the trip every week, commuting out on Monday morning, back on Friday evening.
The Friday run required an altitude change to avoid the mountain about an hour into the flight.
The pilot had a wind-up alarm clock that rang to wake him up after 45 minutes.
On his last flight, he either slept through the alarm or forgot to set it.
He did the trip every week, commuting out on Monday morning, back on Friday evening.
The Friday run required an altitude change to avoid the mountain about an hour into the flight.
The pilot had a wind-up alarm clock that rang to wake him up after 45 minutes.
On his last flight, he either slept through the alarm or forgot to set it.
Flying a Beech 18 with PT-6's and still had the tail wheel. Flying between LAX and Santa Fe New Mexico on a Flying Tiger contract. I would nod off, then hear a loud voice in my head set, ATC: "hey, wake up". Me: what? ATC: turn right 20 degrees. Me: 20 degrees??? ATC: yeah, you were waaay of this time. I can laugh at that now. Way back then? Not so much.
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines." LOL!
Lloyd Bridges might have said that! LOL! "Airplane" kinda reminded me of flyin charter.
yes, that was the reference