Two pilots fight before flying plane, grounded, sent for course
(India)
NEW DELHI: A catfight between two pilots at an airport
going to operate a flight together got so intense that the airline had to ground
both and give them a refresher on "crew resource management" (CRM) before
letting them fly again. This episode
happened recently between two commanders
of a leading Indian carrier's Airbus A320 fleet who were heading to an aircraft
to operate a flight.
While officials of this airline confirmed the
catfight, they did not give details. "This happened some days back. They were
put off roster (not given flying duties) and given corrective CRM and simulator
CRM line oriented flight training (LOFT) corrective
training," said an
official. Sources say the fight had happened at an Indian airport when the two
commanders were going to operate a domestic flight.
Aviation website
SKYbrary describes CRM as "the effective use of all available resources for
flight crew personnel to assure a safe and efficient operation, reducing error,
avoiding stress and increasing efficiency." LOFT "is carried out in a flight
simulator
as part of initial or recurrent flight crew training... special
emphasis on abnormal situations which involve communications, management and
leadership," the website says. According to DGCA circulars, the "overall
objective of LOFT is to improve total
flight crew performance, thereby
preventing incidents and accidents during operational flying.
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