Two pilots fell asleep while flying ‘planes full of passengers, thousands of feet in the air in a potentially dangerous incident, it has emerged.
The pilots, who have not been named, were said to have been left alone in their cockpits when their co-pilots left the flight desk.
Authorities reportedly refused to identify the men, who were working with British airlines, because it would breach data protection laws.
The safety scares emerged as the British Airlines Pilots Association (BAPA) warned the problem was commonplace. According to a survey of BAPA members, nearly half of those polled admitted sleeping in the cockpit and a third woke to find the other pilot asleep. Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
