The future of flying

[Caduceus]

Lufthansa flight flew for 10 minutes without conscious pilot, investigation reveals​

Lufthansa flight flew for 10 minutes without conscious pilot, investigation reveals

A Lufthansa Airbus A321 flight experienced a incident on Feb. 17, 2024, when a copilot fainted alone while the captain was on a restroom break.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Thomas More]

Lufthansa flight flew for 10 minutes without conscious pilot, investigation reveals​

Lufthansa flight flew for 10 minutes without conscious pilot, investigation reveals

A Lufthansa Airbus A321 flight experienced a incident on Feb. 17, 2024, when a copilot fainted alone while the captain was on a restroom break.

www.foxnews.com

Not much that can be done to prevent this happening at least occasionally. It's an unusual combination of circumstances, but certainly possible.

Modern airliners are coming close to the point where they could do the whole flight from takeoff to landing by autopilot. The pilot is still needed to react to emergencies, but in a case like this, the risk of flying on autopilot for 10 minutes was pretty low.

 

[Caduceus]

Not much that can be done to prevent this happening at least occasionally. It's an unusual combination of circumstances, but certainly possible.

Of course it's preventable.
Anytime one of the 2 pilots leaves the cockpit, a flight attendant should go inside and wait until they return.

 

[Read_Lives_of_Saints]

Of course it's preventable.
Anytime one of the 2 pilots leaves the cockpit, a flight attendant should go inside and wait until they return.

I think we know what would happen if you left a stewardess and the pilot alone in the cockpit.

 

[Iakobos]

Of course it's preventable.
Anytime one of the 2 pilots leaves the cockpit, a flight attendant should go inside and wait until they return.

I believe this is SOP in the USA. Not sure if it's different in Europe or if they were disobeying procedure.

 

[TruckDriver9]

Indian Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, flying from Ahmedabad to London, crashed immediately after take-off.

 

[budoslavic]

Via ZeroHedge article

Notice the pilot only used half of the runway for takeoff?

"No Thrust": Over 260 Dead And One Survivor After Air India Crash | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

 

[TruckDriver9]

There's a survivor.

 

[budoslavic]

Translation: Was it DEI that created Boeing's 787 Dreamliner planes?

 

[dicknixon72]

Translation: Was it DEI that created Boeing's 787 Dreamliner planes?

787 has an impeccable safety record. This is pilot and/or maintenance related I'll wager on it

 

[Cooper]

Judging from the audio, the emergency fan electric generator might have been deployed. Power failure? No redundancies?

 

[RedLagoon]

Indians are lazy, they didn't pull full flaps and didn't go TOGA

 

[NSOE]

Rats chewed on some wires.

 

[eradicator]

Rats chewed on some wires.

When do you say rats, do you mean jews? Or maybe Panjeets? Or actual rats?

 

[NSOE]

When do you say rats, do you mean jews? Or maybe Panjeets? Or actual rats?

No plane is Kumar Ready unless it's rodent infested.

 

[RedLagoon]

 

[budoslavic]

 

[RedLagoon]

Safe and defective

 

[budoslavic]

Safe and defective

Do the India's airports have maintenance inspections before and after?

 

[Eagle3]

There's some YT videos where some airline pilots are giving their opinions: one said that, soon after take-off, the co-pilot might have accidentally retracted the flaps rather than retracting the landing gear. Because in the videos, you see the flaps are up but the landing gear is still down.

It's a bit like that Korean airliner disaster (on Jeju island ?) where, after a birdstrike, they make it down but didn't lower the flaps so the plane pummeled into a wall at the end of the runway. Not related, I know, but it shows the importance of flap position both during take-off and landing.