Pilots Sleep As Air-Hostess Turns Off Autopilot On Bangkok-Delhi Flight

[Chao Lao Beach]

Two Air India pilots put the lives of 166 passengers on a Bangkok-Delhi flight in danger by taking a 40-minute break from the cockpit and getting two stewardesses to operate the plane in their absence. Their stunt almost ended in disaster after one of the stewardesses accidentally turned off the auto-pilot, forcing the pilots to rush back to their seats.

More: http://mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/cover-story/Pilots-sleep-as-air-hostess-turns-off-autopilot-on-Bangkok-Delhi-flight/articleshow/19849077.cms

[lomatopo]

More detail here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/637099-air-india-cabin-crew-fly-bangkok-delhi-plane-while-pilots-have-a-nap/

Actual events seem a bit less dramatic than these articles/headlines purport.

[Ricardo]

Wonder what they'd charge, to let one of us passengers take the controls, for a while ?

[Crossy]

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