Dette har jeg rapportert her før, men reaksjonen til Hiroshi Sugie er verdt å merke seg. Jeg er spesielt overrasket over at disse flyene ikke kan opereres av èn flyger. Selv om jobbene normalt er fordelt, så må jo kun en greie begges oppgaver. (Red.)
Flying
high: Co-pilot's breathalyzer test failure at Heathrow puts JAL into tailspin
"Drunk Japanese pilot
arrested at Heathrow Airport" read the BBC news headline on Nov 1.
Don't think that's particularly exceptional, remarked Friday (Nov 23). There's
probably someone, somewhere in the world flying high right now.
Former JAL pilot and aviation critic Hiroshi Sugie put it like this: "In
today's aircraft, when an emergency arises, things have been designed so that
the pilot cannot control the plane on his own. All the tasks have been
apportioned. So if you think it will be all right that it was just a co-pilot
this time, that's a huge mistake. Even then, I can't imagine alcohol in the
equation, even a small amount. All the people in the aviation industry, myself
included, are astonished by this."
At around 7 p.m. on Oct 28, a 42-year-old Japanese co-pilot was arrested at
Heathrow Airport while preparing for a flight to Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The
local police were alerted by the driver of a crew bus who smelled alcohol on
the pilot. The co-pilot admitted that while in the hotel the night before, he
had consumed two bottles of wine, three small bottles of beer and two cans of
beer.
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