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Old 24th Mar 2017, 14:56
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G SXTY

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It was an out and back 2 sector duty.

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An excellent description of fatigue. It can be insidious and creep up on you without you even realizing. Regarding accountability, fatiguing rostering practices have been a fact of life at FZ for years. In my experience, with the honourable exception of the safety department, management were utterly indifferent to the problem. In the months leading up to the crash, there were around 20 fatigue-related ASR's per month, and the response was usually along the lines of "it's legal captain" or "that's how it is, if you don't like it you can leave." Many did.

Bearing in mind that Flydubai's chairman is also president of the Dubai CAA, and given the local culture where bad / embarrassing / inconvenient news is - how can I put it - 'discouraged,' I seriously doubt that anyone senior in the company will ever be held accountable.

A final report blaming pilot error would suit certain people very nicely.
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