Over 50% of pilots have fallen asleep while flying, with fatigue being the biggest safety issue. Regulations increasing free time between flights could help prevent accidents. Flying is still one of the safest modes of transportation.
More than half of pilots fall asleep in the air, according to a 2013 survey by the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA). XNUMX% of pilots reported that they fell asleep while flying an airplane. Just over a quarter of the pilots who fell asleep observed that their co-pilots fell asleep at the same time as them, leaving the aircraft on autopilot unattended. Pilot fatigue is considered to be the single biggest problem affecting air travel safety among pilots, three times as many as any other factor. Public safety advocates believe that regulations that increase the required amount of free time between flights would limit pilot fatigue and prevent it from compromising their ability to fly safely.
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