Airline Puts Pilot in Dangerous Position—and It Results in Disaster

Addressing the Disaster

Instead of taking responsibility for the accident, British Airways temporarily rebranded themselves as British Airlines and avoided publicizing the incident. They fired all of their employees and rehired new crewmembers who had to go through massively different training than the prior staff did. The company also installed recording devices in the cockpits of all of their planes to monitor pilot interactions...

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.