Originally Posted by
stilton
After four years flying the MD80 I can assure
you it doesn’t have the legs that would require an inflight seat swap for a relief pilot
It is very strange. The only thing that comes to mind is a DC-8 crash in the 80s or 90s where fatigue might have made the pilots “punch drunk”. So we would have to know what the pilots’ duty day was like. If a tag leg after an all nighter with delays in between flights they would be zombies. NTSB will let you know someday. Nobody on atlas dare chime in if that’s the case.