How flight crew exhaustion almost led to America's worst airline disaster

[beschizza]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/21/how-flight-crew-exhaustion-alm.html

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[Mangochin]

And this is what happens when you attack unions and labor regulations.

The only reason you have pilots awake all night is the lack of people to relieve them and the expectation of management that they should work so many hours.

[simonize]

If you like reading this sort of thing, I recomend NTSB reports.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/pages/accidentreports.aspx

[Spizella]

FlightChannel simulator video of what happened (FC seems to be making videos for folks interested in aviation details, but the videos are kind of uncanny bec they rarely have voice audio, and no people are shown):

[MalevolentPixy]

This is a huge problem in medicine, too. No one is at their best at the end of a 12½ hour shift. Yet we expect people who have other people’s lives in their hands to do this regularly.

Overwork has deadly consequences.

[codinghorror]

At least this was averted. Imagine what wasn’t.

[ficuswhisperer]

@Spizella

but the videos are kind of uncanny bec they rarely have voice audio, and no people are shown

I think I prefer my flight simulator videos to more like this:

747 Pilot LOSES HIS MIND in Flight Simulator X (Multiplayer ATC)

[knoxblox]

@Mangochin

The only reason you have pilots awake all night is the lack of people to relieve them and the expectation of management that they should work so many hours.

@MalevolentPixy

This is a huge problem in medicine, too. No one is at their best at the end of a 12½ hour shift.

Add in long-haul trucking, etc. What industry hasn’t the invisible hand of the market twisted beyond safe standards?

[Mangochin]

Oh definitely. I wanted to bring that one up too, but I didn’t want to be a board hog.