Newsdesk – An Ethiopian Airlines boeing aeroplane 737-800 pilot fell asleep on board and forgot to land the plane on a destination and failed to descend to the runway in the capital Addis Ababa.
It was quite fortunate that the alarm of the plane altered the pilot when the plane overshot its target, waking him up. Then, the pilot safely landed the plane without any happening after 25 minutes.
Experts are of the view, pilots run hard with exhaustion on which is quite worrisome, an issue. The investigation in the incident has been initiated and the crew has been removed from the duty.
The authorities say the corrective measures would be taken after the report of the investigation. The report of taking nap by the pilot has come out after days after the incident has occured.
This is not the first time, earlier also , a pilot of Italian airlines was sacked after reportedly found accused of taking nap on duty.
