The captain of an Air
France plane which crashed into the sea with the loss of all 228 people
on board had just one hour’s sleep before setting off, it emerged today.
In a damning report which will worry long-haul flyers, it appeared that his co-pilots were also dangerously tired.
Five
Britons were among the dead when AF447 fell out of the sky as it
travelled from Rio de Janiero in Brazil to Paris in June 2009.
As
the Airbus A330 rolled from side to side in a tropical thunderstorm,
32-year-old Pierre-Cedric Bonin and David Robert, 37, were unable to
bring it under control.
Even when Marc Dubois, the 58-year-old
captain, returned from a rest break, his deputies were panicking too
much to tell him what the problem was.
A detailed analysis of two
black box flight recorders has established that airspeed sensors had
malfunctioned - probably because they had frozen up.
But now a recording of Dubois has emerged in which he says: ‘I didn’t sleep enough last night. One hour – it’s not enough.’
Le
Point, the French news magazine which has obtained a previously
undisclosed judicial report into the tragedy, says that Dubois was
already ‘grumbling’ less than an hour and a half into the flight.
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