Daily Record: Airline staff hit out at Ryanair boss' 'crazy' idea to ditch co-pilots and train cabin crew to make emergency landing -

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CALLS by Ryanair to ditch the second pilot from the flightdeck to save money have been branded "crazy".
The no-frills airline boss, Michael O'Leary, has suggested cabin crew could instead be trained to take the controls and land the plane in an emergency.
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National Public Radio: Interview mit Eric Moody, Chefpilot einer B 747, die am 24.Juni 1982 auf dem Flug B 009 von Kuala Lumpur nach Perth, nahe der Küste Indonesiens in eine Vulkan-Aschewolke kam

Transcript bei NPR :

As the volcano in Iceland continues to spew ash, flights are grounded across large areas of Europe. And if you wonder why such caution is needed, you can ask retired British Airways Captain Eric Moody. In 1982, Captain Moody was flying near Jakarta, Indonesia when volcanic ash caused all four engines on his Boeing 747 to fail. But Captain Moody landed his airplane. He joins us now from Camberley, England.
Captain Moody, thanks for being with us.
Mr. ERIC MOODY (Retired British Airways Pilot): It's a pleasure.
SIMON: So your plane's going down. Oxygen bags are deployed. What do you do?
Mr. MOODY: Gosh, we'd been trying  more...

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