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UPS Pilot Strike! What will you do with the extra time off?
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<blockquote data-quote="worldwide" data-source="post: 2158165" data-attributes="member: 2193"><p>The cause of the crash was not exclusively fatigue. The captain had some "training deficiencies" that were noted. Was fatigue a factor? Sure, most UPS flights fly at night and the body's circadian clock can take time to adjust to different schedules. Yet, hundreds of UPS flights fly each night and they are not crashing short of runways like the Birmingham accident. The captain was off work for 7 days prior to the accident so its reasonable to assume he would have been rested. I think most anyone in any job can say at any time they are tired. Fatigue was a factor but not the cause of the accident.</p><p></p><p>From the <a href="http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/pages/AAR1402.aspx" target="_blank">NTSB report</a>.</p><p></p><p>"The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the flight crew's continuation of an unstabilized approach and their failure to monitor the aircraft's altitude during the approach, which led to an inadvertent descent below the minimum approach altitude and subsequently into terrain. Contributing to the accident were (1) the flight crew's failure to properly configure and verify the flight management computer for the profile approach; (2) the captain's failure to communicate his intentions to the first officer once it became apparent the vertical profile was not captured; (3) the flight crew's expectation that they would break out of the clouds at 1,000 feet above ground level due to incomplete weather information; (4) the first officer's failure to make the required minimums callouts; (5) the captain's performance deficiencies likely due to factors including, but not limited to, fatigue, distraction, or confusion, consistent with performance deficiencies exhibited during training; and (6) the first officer's fatigue due to acute sleep loss resulting from her ineffective off-duty time management and circadian factors.</p><p></p><p>Although the captain flew 6 days in a row on his previous three trip pairings, he generally was off duty for 7 or more days between trips, including just before the accident pairing, allowing for adequate time to recover from any sleep debt he may have acquired while on duty.</p><p></p><p>There were several decisions made by the first officer that contributed to her fatigue, which could have been mitigated by alternate choices. The first officer could have more effectively managed her sleep/wake schedule during her extended layover in San Antonio to minimize further adverse effects when she returned to night duty on August 1.</p><p></p><p>To use an accident to make a point when the facts surrounding the accident don’t support that point – is not simply an illogical conclusion, but also one that must be viewed as purely politically motivated."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="worldwide, post: 2158165, member: 2193"] The cause of the crash was not exclusively fatigue. The captain had some "training deficiencies" that were noted. Was fatigue a factor? Sure, most UPS flights fly at night and the body's circadian clock can take time to adjust to different schedules. Yet, hundreds of UPS flights fly each night and they are not crashing short of runways like the Birmingham accident. The captain was off work for 7 days prior to the accident so its reasonable to assume he would have been rested. I think most anyone in any job can say at any time they are tired. Fatigue was a factor but not the cause of the accident. From the [URL='http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/pages/AAR1402.aspx']NTSB report[/URL]. "The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the flight crew's continuation of an unstabilized approach and their failure to monitor the aircraft's altitude during the approach, which led to an inadvertent descent below the minimum approach altitude and subsequently into terrain. Contributing to the accident were (1) the flight crew's failure to properly configure and verify the flight management computer for the profile approach; (2) the captain's failure to communicate his intentions to the first officer once it became apparent the vertical profile was not captured; (3) the flight crew's expectation that they would break out of the clouds at 1,000 feet above ground level due to incomplete weather information; (4) the first officer's failure to make the required minimums callouts; (5) the captain's performance deficiencies likely due to factors including, but not limited to, fatigue, distraction, or confusion, consistent with performance deficiencies exhibited during training; and (6) the first officer's fatigue due to acute sleep loss resulting from her ineffective off-duty time management and circadian factors. Although the captain flew 6 days in a row on his previous three trip pairings, he generally was off duty for 7 or more days between trips, including just before the accident pairing, allowing for adequate time to recover from any sleep debt he may have acquired while on duty. There were several decisions made by the first officer that contributed to her fatigue, which could have been mitigated by alternate choices. The first officer could have more effectively managed her sleep/wake schedule during her extended layover in San Antonio to minimize further adverse effects when she returned to night duty on August 1. To use an accident to make a point when the facts surrounding the accident don’t support that point – is not simply an illogical conclusion, but also one that must be viewed as purely politically motivated." [/QUOTE]
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