The co-pilot of an Indian airliner sent it into a terrifying dive after he knocked the control column forward while adjusting his seat.
The captain was using the toilet when his colleague sent the plane hurtling downwards.
The panicked co-pilot couldn’t regain control and was unable to let the captain back into the cockpit.
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Fortunately the captain had an override code for the cockpit and managed to wrestle the controls from the co-pilot of the Air Indian Express Boeing 737.
The 113 passengers on the May 26 flight from Dubai to Pune were frightened and shouting, according to reports.
India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation determined that the plane quickly banked and went into steep dive that ended up exceeding maximum safe flying speed.
The co-pilot, who had less than 1000 hours of experience on Boeing 737s, told investigators he was too stressed to respond to repeated calls from the cabin over the plane's intercom to open the cockpit door for the captain.
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Dec 6, 2010 , United Arab Emirates
It is another stupid action from a co-pilot. It is just a matter of having "presence of mind" and a "BIG common sense". No matter how you learn in school and in textbooks or whatever, Without it, nobody can go farther coz in real life and in real actions, life are driven not thru textbooks appli...
Dec 1, 2010 , Barbados
Would this happen to an airbus 320? Would not the software prevent the aircraft from going into a structural border issue? Also, I notice with some airlines that whenever a cockpit crew member exits the cockpit, he or she is replaced by a flight attendant to be able to open the cockpit door in a...