Ned Levi has surveyed the state of the commercial airline industry in light of a year of serious security and service failures. To combat those problems Ned has suggested New Year’s resolutions for the government and the airlines.
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pilot fatigue
At the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearings this week, pilot fatigue was front and center. Sen. Rockefeller (D-WV), committee chairman started off the hearings auspiciously.
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Our Laura Townsend Elion managed to get out Top 10 list of reasons that the Delta (Northwest) pilots managed to miss Minneapolis by 150 miles.
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The latest excuse offered by the pilots of Northwest flight 188 for missing the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles is, my laptop made me do it!
Kinda. Actually in pilot-speak, they claimed they “lost situational awareness.” According to federal investigators, the wayward crew blamed their oversight on a perfect storm of individually trivial events that combined [...]
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By now most Consumer Traveler readers will have heard this story: A Delta plane bound from San Diego to Minneapolis overshot the airport by 150 miles. The crew members eventually realized their mistake and turned the plane around, landing without further incident.
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Over the last 15 years, almost a dozen fatal crashes and numerous close calls have been blamed on pilot fatigue. Safety experts say that this is almost the same as driving drunk.
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