co-pilot

The Asiana Airlines passenger jet that crashed while landing at San Francisco airport on Saturday was being flown by the co-pilot who was undergoing a flight familiarization session needed to fly the Boeing aircraft with a more experienced pilot, an official from South Korea's transportation ministry told reporters Monday.

The co-pilot goes up to the blonde and whispers in her ear.

The passenger continued to bang on the door for assistance and even offered the password but the co-pilot refused to budge, leading to fighter planes being alerted.

Japan's air transport authorities have said the reason an All Nippon Airways (ANA) domestic flight destined for Tokyo nearly flipped over earlier this month was because a co-pilot pressed the wrong switch in the cockpit.

The experience of Spanish pilot Jordi Gola Lopez, 31, and co-pilot Mr Cantle, 27, are forming part of the investigation.

In the preceding year co-pilots had to step in 39 times for a wide variety of reasons, including food poisoning, nausea and fainting.

In one instance, McVicker said, Merten was advised three times by his co-pilot to decelerate as the plane prepared for landing, but the German brushed his co-pilot aside.

(ADPnews) - Apr 7, 2010 - There will be no lay-offs of co-pilots at Tyrolean Airways, part of Austrian Airlines (WBAG:AUA), after trade union Vida agreed to a part-time and short-time work plan.

The CAD's list included failure to follow standard operating procedure for a go-around after an aborted landing; failure to properly operate cockpit equipment; lack of co-ordination between pilot and co-pilot; pilot fatigue; sudden change in weather conditions; and inadequate reactions by the pilot and co-pilot.

A simulation of the flight's final minutes was consistent with the co-pilot inadvertently hitting the autopilot button instead of another motion control device, the report said.

National broadcaster NHK identified them as 54-year-old pilot Kevin Kylemosley and his 49-year-old co-pilot, Anthony Stephen-Pino.

"As the pilot came in for the final approach the co-pilot noticed a flash at the side of the plane," she said.