Pilot and co-pilot fell asleep for 28 minutes during Indonesian flight

Batik Air plane drifted off its path after pilots fell asleep A disaster was narrowly avoided after two pilots fell asleep for almost 30 minutes mid-flight while passengers were onboard. A Batik Airplane in Indonesia reportedly drifted off its planned flight path after both the pilot and co-pilot snoozed off in the cockpit for 28 minutes. The pair fell asleep despite being responsible for the lives of 153 passengers on board.

He realised the co-pilot was also asleep and that the Airbus A320 plane was not on its mapped flight path. He woke his colleague up, responded to calls from Jakarta and corrected the flight path, a report into the incident said. Batik Air was ‘strongly’ reprimanded by the Indonesian transport ministry, with director-general M.Kristi Endah Murni calling on airlines to pay more attention to their air crew’s rest time after the near-fatal mishap.

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