On an ITA flight from New York to Rome, fighter jets are alerted because both pilots are suddenly no longer available. The reason has bad consequences for one.
ROME – One might assume that with such a responsible job, that’s exactly what doesn’t happen, but a pilot for the Italian airline ITA proves the opposite: On May 1, a passenger plane is on its way from New York to Rome and is just overhead French airspace when contact with the two pilots in the plane suddenly breaks off rtl news had previously reported.
Incredible incident on a passenger flight to Rome: both pilots fall asleep in the cockpit
The air traffic controller responsible should not have reached anyone from the cockpit for a full ten minutes and therefore triggered the alarm. The sudden silence raised concern that the plane, which was carrying many passengers, might have been taken over by terrorists. The triggered alarm almost resulted in fighter jets being launched – but after ten minutes the pilot was suddenly reachable again.
After the incident, he apparently claimed that none of this was his fault and that the radio simply didn’t work. But the airline from Italy finds out: He actually fell asleep. Since the co-pilot was also asleep at exactly this time, the Airbus had been in the airspace for ten minutes without any guidance. While the co-pilot was legitimately allowed to sleep, the pilot should have stayed awake at all costs for precisely that reason.
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Opposite to rtl ITA airline announced after the incident that they fired the pilot after the incident. The relationship of trust was damaged too much by the pilot for that. The passengers did not hear anything about the incident in the cockpit during the flight. (na)
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