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Unconscious trainee pilot's plane flew itself into South Australia
From Adelaide Now...I first saw the story on Yahoo7, but I don't really trust them enough to post here.
This link has quite a good map/track of where he was headed and where he ended up. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/uncons...-1226064791535 Quote:
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Great security!
Doesn't anyone else have a concern that an aircraft with a Middle Eastern pilot went incommunicado for 55 minutes and headed straight for Adelaide?
What if ...
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No.
Seems you have fallen into the American ideology that all people from the ME must be bad, especially those that fly, even for a reputable airline.
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Agree Torin, I think Philip could have chosen his words a little more carefully.
That being said he does bring up a valid point if it turned out no comms occurred for the 'alleged' 55 minute period and after 'allegedly' reporting that he felt "hot and sweaty"... Then again, he was flying over Adelaide... :P |
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NOT MY PARADIGM!
It's not my paradigm that our intelligence services use for their profiling - I'm just concerned that something that fits THEIR profile apparently didn't trigger any action - hence my 'Great security!' post heading.
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What's to say it didn't? An ATSB report will not contain that sort of information because it's completely irrelevant to the investigation.
Another point, the aircraft was likely to have been VFR, therefore unless he was receiving Flight Following, then he would have been on a code of 1200 only and no ID of the aircraft displayed. Therefore, ATC would a) Have had no idea who it was, and b)Had no idea that it's a Middle Eastern pilot. Add to the above, that's a fairly big generalisation you're making Philip and probably inappropriate. Australia trains a lot of Middle Eastern pilots every year. Mick |
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Got to agree with Philip here, inappropriate or not. In the world we currently live in, these things SHOULD set off alarm bells...
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He will have already been security background checked - tis a requirement in order to fly in command.
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Another thing to point out. Violations of controlled airspace are a daily event in many parts of Australia, so how did they know this just wasn't another one?
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Just another one?
IMHO every violation of controlled airspace should be triggering at least an alert until it's established to be both inadvertent and innocuous
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