Exhausted airline pilots are frequently falling asleep in the cockpit, with
one in six admitting to having slept at the same time as their co-pilot,
their union has warned.
The British Airline Pilots Association released the findings of its survey
after reports of an incident in August where a passenger plane belonging to
a UK airline was left on autopilot as the crew slept.
Neither pilot had slept more than five hours in the past two nights before
flying the Airbus A330, according to the official incident report logged by
the Civil Aviation Authority, which did not issue further details.....snip
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/uk-airline-pilots-union-balpa-fatigue-survey
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