Pilot Errors - Volume 18: Incompetence, Fatigue and Vodka

Lack of training... Dangerous complacency... Routine negligence... But vodka abuse and the incompetence of some Russian pilots are also on the agenda.

- A retired police officer has always dreamed of becoming a pilot. He then obtains an airline pilot's license and is hired by a private company. Unfortunately, his experience is limited and he flies too little to be successful.

- A former military man is hired as an airline pilot, but he has retained a terribly harsh mentality that doesn't comply with civil aviation safety regulations. Furthermore, he is financially ruined following disastrous stock market investments. Desperate, he wants to end his life!

- A Russian pilot earned his airline pilot's license by bribing all his examiners. Yet everyone knows he's completely incompetent. Promoted to captain, against all logic, he crashes a 737 with forty-four passengers.

- The captain of an Aeroflot-Nord Boeing 737 is completely incompetent... He is inexperienced, drunk, and exhausted from the flights he has made over the previous three days. Suffering from spatial disorientation, he loses control of his plane on short final at night and crashes onto the Trans-Siberian railway track.

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Jean-Pierre OTELLI was a display pilot at air shows and aviation exhibitions. With 15,600 flight hours, he was also an aerobatic squad leader and aerobatics instructor.
An aeronautical expert and media consultant, he has written numerous best-selling books on aviation safety.