India pilot slept during flight that ended in fatal crash

12 April 2012

The pilot of a flight that crashed in India in May, killing 158 passengers, slept through more than half the journey and woke up disorientated when it was time to land, an official inquiry concluded.

In-flight recorders picked up the sound of heavy snoring on the Air India flight that landed in Mangalore, the Hindustan Times reported.

The co-pilot, H S Ahluwalia, is heard repeatedly warning his disorientated captain Zlatko Glusica to abort the landing. The last words captured by the recorders as the plane crashed were those of one of the pilots saying: "Oh my God."

The flight from Dubai overshot a hilltop runway, crashed and plunged over a cliff. Eight people survived the crash.

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