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Pilots sleeping in the cockpit could improve airline safety

  • Written by Scott Winter, Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Pilots sleeping in the cockpit could improve airline safetyAirline pilots are often exhausted.christinarosepix/Shutterstock.com

Airline pilots are often exhausted. An extreme example happened in 2008, when a pilot and a co-pilot both fell asleep at the controls, missing their landing in Hawaii – earning pilot’s license suspensions as well as getting fired. More recently, overtired pilots came...

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