Addis Ababa: Two pilots are believed to have fallen asleep during a flight from Sudan to Ethiopia and missed the landing, media reports have said.
The incident happened on the ship a Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 from Khartoum addis ababaAccording to a report by the Aviation Herald, a commercial aviation news site, CNN reported.
Data obtained by the website indicated that the plane was cruising on autopilot at an altitude of 37,000 feet when it failed to descend Addis Ababa Bole International AirportIts scheduled destination, on August 15.
Air traffic control was apparently unable to reach the crew despite several attempts at contact. However, an alarm was triggered when the plane overtook the runway and continued along the route, CNN reported.
The aircraft began to descend later, landing safely about 25 minutes later.
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data shows the aircraft is flying over the runway before starting the maneuver for its landing and second approach.
aviation analyst alex maceras He has since taken to Twitter to express his shock over the “deeply concerning incident”, which he suggests may have been the result of pilot exhaustion.
“Pilot fatigue is nothing new and one of the most significant threats to air security internationally,” he tweeted on Thursday.
The report comes just a few months after the pilots Southwest Airlines And Delta Airlines warned airline executives that pilot fatigue was on the rise and urged them to treat fatigue and the resulting mistakes as a safety risk.
“Fatigue, both acute and cumulative, has become Southwest Airlines’ number-one safety hazard,” Southwest Airlines Pilots Associationor SWAPA, told airline executives in a letter back in April, CNN reported.
The incident happened on the ship a Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 from Khartoum addis ababaAccording to a report by the Aviation Herald, a commercial aviation news site, CNN reported.
Data obtained by the website indicated that the plane was cruising on autopilot at an altitude of 37,000 feet when it failed to descend Addis Ababa Bole International AirportIts scheduled destination, on August 15.
Air traffic control was apparently unable to reach the crew despite several attempts at contact. However, an alarm was triggered when the plane overtook the runway and continued along the route, CNN reported.
The aircraft began to descend later, landing safely about 25 minutes later.
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data shows the aircraft is flying over the runway before starting the maneuver for its landing and second approach.
aviation analyst alex maceras He has since taken to Twitter to express his shock over the “deeply concerning incident”, which he suggests may have been the result of pilot exhaustion.
“Pilot fatigue is nothing new and one of the most significant threats to air security internationally,” he tweeted on Thursday.
The report comes just a few months after the pilots Southwest Airlines And Delta Airlines warned airline executives that pilot fatigue was on the rise and urged them to treat fatigue and the resulting mistakes as a safety risk.
“Fatigue, both acute and cumulative, has become Southwest Airlines’ number-one safety hazard,” Southwest Airlines Pilots Associationor SWAPA, told airline executives in a letter back in April, CNN reported.