Sunday, July 29, 2018

Disrespect leads to airline cockpit fight

Samuel Lovett

Iraqi Airways has suspended two of its pilots for physically fighting each other during an international flight with 157 passengers on board.

The aircraft, which left from Mashhad on Wednesday and was headed for Baghdad, was cruising at 37,000 ft when the two men started fighting one another in the pilots’ cockpit over a food tray.

In a letter addressed to Iraqi Airways management, the co-pilot said: “Conversation with the pilot became heated because he forbade an air hostess from bringing me a meal tray, under the pretext that I hadn’t asked him for authorisation.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraqi-airways-pilots-suspended-fighting-food-flying-cockpit-a8467716.html

Link at https://gatesofvienna.net/2018/07/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-7-28-2018/#more-46301

The pilots face a possible lifetime flying ban.

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