Virgin Pilots Asleep On Jet

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Two Virgin Atlantic Pilots Have Been Suspended For Risking The Lives Of Passengers By Sleeping During A Flight From America..

The People Newspaper Stated The Following: –

The Captain And First Officer Took It In Turns To Leave The Cockpit And Snooze In Bunk Beds On The Airbus A340-300, Which Can Carry 233 People. The Jet, Flying To London From New York Could Have Crashed If The Pilot At The Controls Had Fallen Ill. Its Autopilot Would Not Have Saved It In An Emergency, When All The Systems Have To Be Controlled Manually. And It Would Have Been Far Easier For A Terrorist To Overpower The Flight Deck’s Single Occupant.

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Under The Civil Aviation Authority Rules There Must Always Two Pilots On Duty. An Investigation Was Launched When A Worried Steward Reported The Pair After A 6 Hour Flight In March. It Is Due To Conclude Later This Month. Virgin Is Still Reeling From A Scandal Involving Pilot Richard Harwell, 55.

He Was Arredted For Being Drunk In The Cockpit Of A Boeing 747 About To Leave Washington For Heathrow Last December. The Civil Aviation Authority Said Of The Latest Incident: “there Have To Be Two People In Cockpit At All Times, Apart From Breif Toilet Breaks.

In 1994 One Of Russian Air-line Aeroflots Planes Crashed After A Pilot Left His 15 Year Old Son At The Controls.

Alex Mcwhirter Aviation Expert At Business Traveller Magazine, Said A Pilot Could Become Incapacitated Through Something He Has Eaten. Passengers Would Not Have Been Happy If They Knew There Were Not Two Pilots In Charge. A Virgin Atlantic Spokes Woman Said: “we Take Saftey Very Seriously”