Pilots suspended after fight in cockpit during flight – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

It was during a flight between Geneva and Paris in June that the captain and co-pilot ended up at each other’s throats. The conflict is said to have started when the co-pilot refused to follow an order. Hitting and throwing One of the pilots must have hit or slapped the other, according to one of the pilots. The two then ended up in a basket roof where they held each other by the collars. In the end, one of them is said to have thrown some kind of suitcase in the other’s face. Cabin crew must have heard noises and came to stop the situation, which thus happened shortly after take off. The situation should have already calmed down somewhat before the cabin crew entered. To prevent the fight from continuing, one of the crew sat in the cockpit behind the two pilots for the rest of the flight and wrote a report. An Air France at Orly airport, south of Paris. The plane is not the same as the plane the pilots crashed in. Photo: CHARLES PLATIAU / Reuters A spokesperson from the airline is said to have confirmed the information La Tribune has. The spokeswoman adds that the pilots can expect a reaction from management following their “totally inappropriate behaviour”. The aircraft is an Airbus A320, which can take up to 186 passengers. The French Aviation Authority was not notified of the incident because it had no consequences for the flight. Fuel leak on another flight The startling incident became known the same week that the French aviation authority BEA issued a report regarding another Air France flight, in December 2020. The crew on board an Airbus A330 en route from Brazzaville in the Congo to Paris suddenly discovered that 1.4 tons of fuel were missing. The plane was then over Chad, and the crew started emergency procedures to, among other things, avoid a fire on board. The engine on the side of a suspected leak was turned off. The captain landed the plane safely at N’Djamena airport in Chad, 1 hour and 47 minutes after the leak was discovered. The loss of fuel was estimated at around 5.7 tonnes when the aircraft was parked at the airport, including 5.3 tonnes while the aircraft was in the air.



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