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Airliner's pilot falls asleep at controls
Tel Aviv, Israel - 100 passengers on board saved thanks to the co-pilot
He felt asleep while was at the controls, the pilot of a B-737 airplane belonging to the Israeli company El Al, after having swallowed, inadvertently he affirms, some sleeping pills to regulate blood pressure. To report this is the Israeli newspaper "Hareetz", that specifies the event happened a pair of weeks ago, and the aircraft, taken off from Tel Aviv and directed to Kiev, carrying 100 passengers,...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1115190
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency