Half of British Pilots Fall Asleep on the Job, Finds Survey

A new survey finds that more than half of Britain's airline pilots have fallen asleep in the cockpit and a third have woken up to find their co-pilot asleep. The poll of 500 pilots commissioned by the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) also found that 43 percent believed that tiredness had compromised their ability to fly a plane at least once a month for the last six months. Some 56 percent admitted they had fallen asleep during a flight ...

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