Two pilots are believed to have fallen asleep and missed their landing during a flight from Sudan to Ethiopia.
Two pilots are believed to have fallen asleep and missed their landing during a flight from Sudan to Ethiopia on Monday, according to a report by commercial aviation news siteThe incident took place on board an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 en route from Khartoum to Addis Ababa, the report said,"when the pilots fell asleep" and"the aircraft continued past the top of descent.
"We have received a report which indicates Ethiopian flight number ET343 en route from Khartoum to Addis Ababa temporarily lost communication with Addis Ababa Air Traffic Control on 15 August 2022," reads a statement issued by Ethiopian Airlines on Friday. Aviation analyst Alex Macheras has since taken to Twitter to express his shock at the"deeply concerning incident," which he suggests may have been the result of pilot exhaustion.
"Fatigue, both acute and cumulative, has become Southwest Airlines' number-one safety threat," the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, or SWAPA, told airline executives in a letter back in April.
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