{"id":256841,"date":"2023-08-21T20:31:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=256841"},"modified":"2023-08-29T12:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T06:56:32","slug":"pilot-fatigue-in-india-a-wake-up-call-for-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pilot-fatigue-in-india-a-wake-up-call-for-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot fatigue in India, a wake-up call for airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cPilot fatigue in India, a wake-up call for airlines\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d <\/strong>on 21st August 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS 3 – Disaster management<\/p>\n

Relevance:<\/strong> Issues related to aircraft accidents<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– In the past weeks, there have been reports of some Indian pilots who passed away due to cardiac arrest. One of them was a pilot of Indian origin flying for an airline in West Asia.<\/p>\n

What are issues related to pilots in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Airlines and the aviation regulatory body <\/strong>in India does not comprehend the significance of fatigue and inadequate sleep.<\/strong><\/p>\n

India has some of the most inadequate regulations concerning Flight and Duty Time Limitations<\/strong> and rest intervals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proficiency evaluations <\/strong>are manipulated and training often reduced to a mere formality.<\/p>\n

Airlines around the globe impose a minimum cumulative cockpit experience requirement<\/strong> for both pilots. Indian airlines do not fulfil these criteria.<\/p>\n

Flying crew in India get one day off <\/strong>in a week and just their annual leave. \u2018Safe airlines\u2019 worldwide provide at least two days off<\/strong> every week and proper rest periods between flights for the body clock to unwind.<\/p>\n

The fatal accident at Mangaluru and Kozhikode (August 2020) had identified another important factor. The pilots were taking medications. Self-medication<\/strong> becomes a norm. Without many being aware of side-effects, these can induce other conditions.<\/p>\n

What are the contributing factors behind the aircraft accidents?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Crew duty time cannot be standardized<\/strong> for all situations. Human fatigue<\/strong> varies throughout the day, with the circadian low affecting the period from midnight to sunrise.\u00a0 The number of landings during a pilot’s duty duration contributes to fatigue.<\/p>\n

Over 60 years ago, a scientific study demonstrated that stress levels <\/strong>during landing approaches can elevate heart rates to over 240 beats per minute.<\/p>\n

This triggers the adrenal glands<\/strong> and leads to significant sugar depletion<\/strong> in the body. This\u00a0 has identified this as a contributing factor towards accidents.<\/p>\n

Accidents have been linked to sleep deprivation and momentary micro-sleep episodes<\/strong> lasting between five to 15 seconds during the approach and landing phases.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cPilot fatigue in India, a wake-up call for airlines\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 21st August 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 – Disaster management Relevance: Issues related to aircraft accidents News– In the past weeks, there have been reports of some Indian pilots who passed away due to… Continue reading Pilot fatigue in India, a wake-up call for airlines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[411,216],"class_list":["post-256841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-disaster-management","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":3,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698444780},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}