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Indonesia’s transport ministry will launch an investigation after two Batik Air pilots fell asleep during a recent flight, according to state news agency Antara, citing the ministry’s civil aviation director-general M Kristi Endah Murni.

According to a preliminary report released Saturday by the National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT), both the pilot and co-pilot fell asleep simultaneously for 28 minutes during a flight from Kendari in Southeast Sulawesi province to the capital Jakarta on January 25, causing navigational errors as “the aircraft was not in the correct flight path.”

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

Definitely overworked pilots.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

The reason given in the article the co-pilot accidentally fell asleep is because he has “one-month-old twins.”

[-] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a man who needs paternity leave.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Can’t argue with that

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

But they both needed to sleep. The flight is just 2h 40min (I’ve done this before) so it’s likely they both needed to rest a bit. I know a number of pilots in US and European airlines, and they’ve always maintained that these commuter runs are a grind.

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