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This is a blatant violation of 49 CFR 830.5(a)(2). It's an explicitly listed incident that requires immediate reporting by the pilot. I can't find a definition
by cmurf 9y ago
This is a blatant violation of 49 CFR 830.5(a)(2). It's an explicitly listed incident that requires immediate reporting by the pilot. I can't find a definition for immediate, but as a pilot I consider it to mean today, not tomorrow. If it were a clearance, immediate means right now, not even one minute from now and if I can't do it right now, I would right now reply "unable: reason(s)"
And a big part of why I expect this is because ATC collects a shittonne (an SI unit) of data per day, and I don't expect they have a very long retention for that data. The accident and incident reporting requirements are meant to make sure that data is preserved. I have zero expectation of data retention for flight plans, audio tapes, radar tape, beyond 30 days. I would not be suprised if it were 7 days.
Neither pilot reported this incident? And the surviving pilot admits he did not file a required incident report but he's done a recorded public presentation on an incident that has a mandatory incident reporting requirement? And his excuse is intimidation by his employer, which is probably a crime? What?
I don't have time to dig through all of this, so maybe I've missed something, but something does not pass the smell test.
- oh_sigh 9y agoPerhaps the problem is self reporting? If the captain is still mentally affected, he might not remember to follow through with that? Or he might not have understood that he was even incapacitated at that point.