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"No aircraft in the history of aviation has crashed because a pilot has gone to sleep at the controls," says David Learmount, a former RAF Hercules pilot and sa
by jedmeyers 13y ago
"No aircraft in the history of aviation has crashed because a pilot has gone to sleep at the controls," says David Learmount, a former RAF Hercules pilot and safety editor at trade magazine Flight Global.
This is simply not true - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_7425 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_7425
- ksrm 13y agoIt seems that they were very fatigued, causing them to make an error. The crash wasn't caused by the pilots being asleep.
- sokoloff 13y agohttp://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001206X00805&key=1 http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20001206X... (pilot asleep, non-fatal) http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20120922X41332&key=1 http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20120922X... (pilot asleep, fatal) http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20020715X01133&key=1 http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20020715X... (pilot asleep, fatal) http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20110323X62556&key=1 http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20110323X... (ATC-no crash) http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20091223X50505&key=1 http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20091223X... (fuel truck driver) I spent 5 minutes looking, which appears to have been more fruitful than the research the original author did.