Steve ([info]anton_p_nym) wrote,
@ 2009-06-18 12:05:00
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Current mood: shocked
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Oh, shit.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iovN3SY651-awcKmIjXAkyb8z5RwD98T640G0

The pilot of Continental Flight 61 died over the Atlantic Ocean. Co-pilot and flight engineer look to be about to land the aircraft, a Boeing 777 carrying 247 passengers, any time now in Newark.

-- Steve's starting to think that trans-Atlantic ocean liners might be a good idea after all.


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[info]ikkarus01
2009-06-18 04:22 pm UTC (link)
Some people will do anything to get out of flying into Newark.
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Too soon?

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[info]atdt1991
2009-06-18 04:55 pm UTC (link)
Everything I've read has said that the third person wasn't just a co-pilot but a pilot meant to "spell" the original. They landed without incident.

He died of natural causes, apparently.

Really, this was an inevitable happenstance, as I see it, just like some people are going to have a stroke while driving the car.

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[info]anton_p_nym
2009-06-18 04:58 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, later reports say that the person in the second seat was a "relief pilot".

-- Steve is, once again, standing as an example of blogging over early bulletins as opposed to finished stories; sometimes the facts get garbled and only later research fixes the oopsies.

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[info]bethzebra
2009-06-19 01:59 am UTC (link)
It's my understanding that generally there isn't much difference between the captain of an aircraft and the co-pilot; they're both fully qualified to fly the plane they're on, so having the co-pilot land a plane isn't a big deal in and of itself. That's why he's there, after all, for exactly this situation among others, although of course I'm sure it was kinda freaky to have a co-worker just up and die on you.

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