Sleeping colleague locks Dutch pilot out of cockpit
1 Feb 2013 6:58 AM IST
A pilot of a low-cost Dutch airline was locked out of the cockpit mid-flight after his co-pilot fell asleep, an aviation report has said, prompting authorities to launch a probe into the bizarre incident.
Dutch authorities said the incident occurred on a Boeing 737 flight to Crete in September, but it was only made public on Wednesday after the release of the Dutch aviation safety board's (OVV) quarterly report.An investigation has been launched by the low-cost Dutch airline Transavia, a subsidiary of Air France-KLM, after one of its pilots was locked out of the cockpit mid-flight after his co-pilot fell asleep, The Telegraph reported.
‘After two and a half hours in the air the captain of the Dutch-registered plane left the cockpit to go to the toilet,’ the report said. ‘When he used the intercom to call the first officer he got no reaction’.
Dutch authorities said the incident occurred on a Boeing 737 flight to Crete in September, but it was only made public on Wednesday after the release of the Dutch aviation safety board's (OVV) quarterly report.An investigation has been launched by the low-cost Dutch airline Transavia, a subsidiary of Air France-KLM, after one of its pilots was locked out of the cockpit mid-flight after his co-pilot fell asleep, The Telegraph reported.
‘After two and a half hours in the air the captain of the Dutch-registered plane left the cockpit to go to the toilet,’ the report said. ‘When he used the intercom to call the first officer he got no reaction’.
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