Dont call me Shirley
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- Aug 20, 2002
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...ORDS=charleston
A fundamental breakdown of pilot discipline, including personal conversation in the cockpit, apparently was the major reason a US Airways commuter plane ran off the end of a West Virginia runway last month, according to industry officials.
Now, three weeks after the nonfatal incident, the circumstances are prompting extensive discussion and concern among pilots and safety experts, who consider it the latest example of cockpit distraction and erosion of pilot discipline.
Ouch....this one could easily have been much worse.
(Mods: feel free to move to regional forum; posted here because a US Express flight was involved)
A fundamental breakdown of pilot discipline, including personal conversation in the cockpit, apparently was the major reason a US Airways commuter plane ran off the end of a West Virginia runway last month, according to industry officials.
Now, three weeks after the nonfatal incident, the circumstances are prompting extensive discussion and concern among pilots and safety experts, who consider it the latest example of cockpit distraction and erosion of pilot discipline.
Ouch....this one could easily have been much worse.
(Mods: feel free to move to regional forum; posted here because a US Express flight was involved)