Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Not to scare you too much

But I did find this a little troubling. I'm not trying to scare you out of flying either, it's still safer than driving. You all remember Jim Carey's lecture at the beginning of Dumb and Dumber (while he's driving the limo). I know it's bad to fall asleep if you're working at an office. Even worse if you're a doctor because someone might die, but at least it would probably be only one. Sleeping as a pilot... that's pretty bad. To me the craziest part is that it was both the pilot and the co-pilot. I guess they weren't smart enough or had the will power to have one say to the other "Hey man, I'm really out of it today. Could you cover while I sleep this one off?"

2 comments:

KVB said...

Ah well, the plane pretty well flies itself anyway.

Slick said...

I can just see the pilots when they do wake up, and they've flown past their airport. "I knew I should have taken that turn in Albuquerque."