2 Air France pilots suspended after fighting in cockpit

PARIS (AP) — Fisticuffs in the cockpit, leaving a leaky engine running while cruising over Africa -- Air France pilots are under scrutiny after recent incidents that have prompted French investigators to call for tougher safety protocols.

Two Air France pilots were suspended after physically fighting in the cockpit on a Geneva-Paris flight in June, an Air France official said Sunday. The flight continued and landed safely, and the dispute didn’t affect the rest of the flight, the official said, stressing the airline’s commitment to safety.

Switzerland’s La Tribune reported that the pilot and co-pilot had a dispute shortly after takeoff, and grabbed each other by their collars after one apparently hit the other. Cabin crew intervened and one crew member spent the flight in the cockpit with the pilots, the report said.

News of the fight emerged after France’s air investigation agency, BEA, issued a report Wednesday saying that some Air France pilots lack rigor in respecting procedures during safety incidents.

It focused on a fuel leak on an Air France flight from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to Paris in December 2020, when pilots rerouted the plane but didn’t cut power to the engine or land as soon as possible, as leak procedure requires. The plane landed safely in Chad, but the BEA report warned that the engine could have caught fire.

It mentioned three similar cases between 2017 and 2022, and said some pilots are acting based on their own analysis of the situation instead of safety protocols.

Air France said it is carrying out a safety audit in response. It pledged to follow the BEA’s recommendations, which include allowing pilots to study their flights afterward and making training manuals stricter about sticking to procedure.

The airline noted that it flies thousands of flights daily and the report mentions only four such safety incidents.

Air France pilots unions have insisted that security is paramount to all pilots and defended pilot actions during emergency situations.

The BEA also investigated an incident in April involving an Air France flight from New York’s JFK airport that suffered flight control problems on approach to its landing in Paris.

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FILE - Air France planes are parked on the tarmac at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, in Roissy, near Paris, May 17, 2019. Air France pilots are under scrutiny after recent incidents that have prompted French investigators to call for tougher safety protocols. An airline official said two Air France pilots were suspended after physically fighting in the cockpit on a Geneva-Paris flight in June, 2022. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Na when auto pilot and main pilot go fight I dey wait

We need to be seeing the cockpit activities through a big screen while sitting at the comfort of your chair in the passenger roll

Foreign plane crash na mostly pilots errors and terrorism attacks

why dem go dey fight inside plane.. sey dem think say nah danfo dem dey.. risking people's life like that
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Cherchez la femme..... They must have fought because of a woman

Ah! Imagine been on board. You will turn preacher & motivational speaker so they can fly the plane. And immediately it lands, na you everybody go dey hold against the two pilots

Problem

It's the audacity of these airlines when it comes to Africa. Sending older planes and now stupid pilots that forgot why they are paid so much.

Ok

sack them

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Video of the fight please?

wow!
terrible things happening everywhere!

Bt

Hnmn

Tinubu boys showing themselves. Tueh.

Wow, a serious disaster averted.

How pilots go dey fight inside cockpit?

These guys don't know the high sensitivity of their job.

Yankee101:
The sooner we automate flights the better
Majority of crashes are due to pilot error or overlooked maintenance

It's already in the testing phase.

That and electric planes.

How does that affect Us

The sooner we automate flights the better
Majority of crashes are due to pilot error or overlooked maintenance

Switzerland’s La Tribune reported that the pilot and co-pilot had a dispute shortly after takeoff, and grabbed each other by their collars after one apparently hit the other. Cabin crew intervened and one crew member spent the flight in the cockpit with the pilots, the report said.

They deserved more than suspension.
They need to be sent to prison for endangering peoples lives.

Lexusgs430:
They should be sacked, prosecuted and jailed.......

Seconded!!

We Rise.

Sounds like something that can only happen if there was "Nigeria Airways".

Agbero pilots

Nothing dey surprise me for this world again

And they Carry hundreds of passengers??
This thing they call devil get power o

A female crew member must be the reason for the fight

Amodi470:
How does that affect Us

How will it affect you?
Flying na ya mate ?!

They should be sacked, prosecuted and jailed.......

Air France is notorious for compromising safety standards. If you check now maybe they were fighting over one of the beautiful air hostesses.

They thing wey punna go cause for man head no historian fit write am yet.

Make them fight for mid flight na

Autopilots...

Air France is APC

pilots are Buhari and Tinubu

while Nigeria is the plane..