Posted on 07/14/2015 5:26:20 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
Last year, an Indian Jet Airways Boeing 777 accidentally dropped 2,500 feet while its captain was asleep and its co-pilot was absorbed in her tablet device. It was a serious mishap known as an “altitude bust” that put the plane in the wrong part of the sky where it could have collided with another jet.
The pilots and airline never reported the incident to authorities. Word only reached India’s Director General of Civil Aviation a few days later when an anonymous tipster alerted officials.
Jet Airways suspended the captain and co-pilot after regulators opened an investigation. An airline spokesman said “appropriate corrective training” was provided. The pilots’ names weren’t released.
A Wall Street Journal analysis of flight data and interviews with pilots, air-traffic controllers and aviation experts reveals patterns that indicate many other similar incidents are going unreported across the fast-accelerating Asian aviation market. In terms of annual passenger numbers, India and Indonesia both grew more than 200% during the last decade and China over 300%.
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Safety is such a racist, judgmental, American concept ;)
Never had any desire to go to Asia anyway for some reason.
Travelled a lot in Asia - found that Japanese, Korean, Singaporean, and Thai airlines are pretty reliable.
Others.... uh... not so much.
Never fly on an airline from a country where they allow cattle to wander in the streets.
In the last year I have flown on Cathay Pacific, Thai and EVA. Won’t fly Thai again, but Cathay was fabulous and EVA was pretty dang good.
After I flew on Thai I read about problems they were having and swore them off.
Cathay has Aussie and western pilots and to top it off very cute flight attendants.
I am looking forward to flying Singapore Airlines, hopefully next year.
Although it's a BIG sky, this is all the more serious when you consider that airlines typically follow high-altitude airways, placing them in narrow airspace corridors, and making what would be sparse space into relatively crowded space.
If they fly anything Russian, avoid.
Top of the line; no worries.
From 1971 to 2005 I logged thousands of miles with Asian airlines while living in HK, Manila, Singapore and Bangalore. All of the Asian airlines have had more pilot error type issues than the US. The expansion of their airlines has been so rapid that their pilots do not have as many hours and due to the culture junior officers are much less likely to correct more senior officers.
The situation gets tighter after an accident and then they loosen up again.
Overall..still pretty safe way to travel.
Deluxe!
We always flew PAA.
I know this dates me...
Do snitches get stitches there too?
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