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Ethiopian B738 at Addis Ababa on Aug 15th 2022, pilots asleep (avherald.com)
3 points by Markoff on Aug 19, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



That is terrifying. The top comment is hilarious though:

>A couple of years ago I was connecting through Addis to Stockholm on Ethiopian. Something was going on and the airport was packed so full you could barely walk. A fight started and groups of police started hitting people in the area with clubs. If anyone looked like they were filming, the police would hit them with clubs. When my flight boarded, airport staff just opened the doors to the tarmac. Random people were walking through and boarding aircraft. The person who sat in the seat in front of mine obviously did not have a ticket for the flight and didn't even seem to know where we were going. Nobody seemed to care and we flew to Stockholm with clearly unticketed passengers on board. >I never found out what happened but have avoided Ethiopian since.


How common is that pilots fall asleep while flying a plane? I can imagine it is fairly common, though both of them sleeping is bad.




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