Pilots Fall Asleep Mid-Flight, Plane Flies Off Course

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A sleep-deprived new father of twins and his co-pilot are accused allowing their airliner with 159 people on board to veer off course after they both fell asleep in the cockpit midair, officials in Indonesia said.

Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee found that Batik Air flight BTK6723 began to divert from its flight path on Jan. 25 when both the pilot and his first officer, who were not publicly named, dozed off for around 28 minutes, according to a report on the incident.

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