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AAL Flight 2050 Makes Emergency Landing at KBNA
An American Airlines Boeing 777 flying from Chicago to Miami was diverted to Nashville because of an ill pilot. Flight 2050 landed safely in Nashville at 12:32 p.m. The plane had 213 passengers on board, as well as two pilots and eight flight attendants. It was still on the ground at 2:30 p.m. (www.tennessean.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Is this really news worthy?
it's an almost every day happening that someone gets ill on a flight
Was it the captain that got sick? Thank goodness the co-pilot was able to land it safely!
Why would it matter if it was the captain who became ill? Any FO can easily land any airplane. Both pilots are fully qualified to do everything. The only difference between the two is seniority.
The regionals don't require FO to necessarily have ATP. (My past CFI just started as a regional FO with only 1000 hrs of mostly C172 experience.)
Of course if you've made it to a mainline carrier on a 777 you probably have worked through ATP requirement already.
Of course if you've made it to a mainline carrier on a 777 you probably have worked through ATP requirement already.
When I flew at the regionals, I had FOs with 300 TT. They didn't have an ATP or a type, but they were fully qualified to fly the plane by themselves at any time. The media, and most people, seem to think that airplanes will fall out of the sky without the captain. It's just not true.
I was just being sarcastic. The comment I posted is the most common posted when something like this happens.