Breaking news: Tunisair suspends all operations after physical clash between pilots a

[luchtzak]

Breaking news: Tunisair suspends all operations after physical clash between pilots and technicians

[Harry Wayfarers]

Are the bookmakers offering odds? ... I'll put my money on the technicians :)

[nohold]

At least five flights in the air 12:15 (GMT) on their return legs, three to Tunis, one to Djerba and one to Monastir.

[DaveReidUK]

Flights resumed.

https://www.tunisienumerique.com/tunisie-reprise-vols-tunisair-apres-suspension-provisoire/

[Airbubba]

These occasional fisticuffs are part of the business, I'm afraid :rolleyes::

Air India pilot and engineer fight inside cockpit at Chennai airport

V Ayyappan | TNN | Jan 17, 2015, 11.39 AM IST

Air India pilot and engineer fight inside cockpit at Chennai airport

CHENNAI: A Chennai-Delhi Air India flight was delayed by more than two hours after pilot and aircraft engineer had a difference of opinion which ended up in a fight inside the cockpit on Saturday. The aircraft engineer was injured and was admitted to a private hospital while the pilot Captain Manik Lal has been grounded till investigations are completed.

There were no passengers inside the plane when the incident happened.

Sources said that the plane which had arrived from Mumbai was scheduled to take off at 9.45am to Delhi enroute to Paris and a team of technicians where readying the plane for departure.

The pilot and the engineer are injured.

"Staff were cleaning the wind shield and attending to other technical aspects inside the cockpit when Manik Lal walked in. He was not pleased to see too many people inside the cockpit and started to send them out. The flight engineer V T Kannan reached the cockpit and informed the pilot that the plane was yet to be handed over to the crew for flying. But the pilot refused to pay heed to the explanation," said an official.

This led to an argument which snowballed into a fight in which the flight engineer was injured and was admitted to a private hospital, he added.

An Air India official said," an investigation has been ordered and the pilot was derostered till a report is submitted about the incident."


Air India pilot and engineer fight inside cockpit at Chennai airport - Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Air-India-pilot-and-engineer-fight-inside-cockpit-at-Chennai-airport/articleshow/45919770.cms)

And:

http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/449362-united-engineer-punches-rj-pilot-tarmac.html#post6403510

[JammedStab]

Seems strange that they would suspend all ops because of an individual disagreement between maintenance and an aircrew person. Or is there some sort of widespread issue at this company concerning aircrew and maintenance personnel?

[DaveReidUK]

As the article linked in post #1 says:

"The main reason for the suspension is due to “escalating social tensions” between pilots and technicians."

[El Bunto]

Back in the day during a particular period of union militancy there was a BEA captain who refused to take-off because the dispatcher ( belonging to a different and opposing union ) had left a footprint on the cabin carpet.