{"id":442737,"date":"2021-10-16T08:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T03:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442737"},"modified":"2021-10-16T09:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T03:44:36","slug":"covid-impact-out-of-practice-airline-pilots-are-making-mid-air-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-impact-out-of-practice-airline-pilots-are-making-mid-air-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid impact: Out-of-practice airline pilots are making mid-air errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the cockpit after time off recovering from Covid-19, an airline pilot forgot to start his plane\u2019s second engine for takeoff, a mistake that could have ended in disaster if he hadn\u2019t aborted the flight.<br \/>\nAnother pilot, fresh from a seven-month layoff because of the pandemic and descending to land early in the morning, realized almost too late he hadn\u2019t lowered the wheels and pulled out of the approach just 800 feet (240 meters) from the tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks earlier, a passenger plane leaving a busy airport headed off in the wrong direction, flown by a captain who was back on deck for the first time in more than six months.<\/p>\n<p>These potentially disastrous errors all took place in the U.S. in recent months as pilots returned to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the cockpit after time off recovering from Covid-19, an airline pilot forgot to start his plane\u2019s second engine for takeoff, a mistake that could have ended in disaster if he hadn\u2019t aborted the flight. Another pilot, fresh from a seven-month layoff because of the pandemic and descending to land early in the morning, realized almost too late he hadn\u2019t lowered the wheels and pulled out of the approach just 800 feet (240 meters) from the tarmac. Weeks earlier, a passenger plane leaving a busy airport headed off in the wrong direction, flown by a captain who was back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}