Timeline for Is there a way, by which an airline or ATC would be alerted, if both pilots are asleep or incapacitated?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | comment | added | Bullfrog | In Radar coverage pilots have no reporting requirements, the aircraft does it for them by their SSR paint. The first sign would be a request for frequency transfer. And silence. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:12 | comment | added | Bullfrog | Over the ocean you can have CPDLC as the main communication system. Which means they are going to only talk to you if you talk to them first or they have a request. I have heard of pilots all being asleep for over three, four hours over a long ocean crossing and no one being the wiser. | |
| Apr 4, 2017 at 16:07 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 4, 2017 at 16:06 | history | answered | Pedro Rodrigues | CC BY-SA 3.0 |