{"id":199425,"date":"2019-12-19T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/ask-the-captain-what-happens-if-a-pilot-becomes-disabled-during-a-flight.html"},"modified":"2019-12-19T14:20:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:20:21","slug":"ask-the-captain-what-happens-if-a-pilot-becomes-disabled-during-a-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/travel\/ask-the-captain-what-happens-if-a-pilot-becomes-disabled-during-a-flight.html","title":{"rendered":"Ask a Captain: What happens if a commander becomes infirm during a flight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/9cbec_7ed9d79e-48f6-4c2c-9b17-7386dd1182b6-GettyImages-1045339232.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Question: What happens if one of a pilots turn infirm mid-flight?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Answer:<\/em> Both pilots are entirely competent to take off and land. In a eventuality a commander becomes incapacitated, a other commander would obstruct a aeroplane to a nearest suitable airport, announce an puncture and safely land a airplane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In incomparable airplanes, if a captain became incapacitated, they would have to stop on a runway since usually a left side of a aeroplane has a nose steering circle used for taxiing. The initial officer, who sits on a right, would not be means to cab a airplane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Ask a Captain: Why aeroplane wings aren't in a middle\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_tg\" data-c-vppids=\"[97600842,3778717002]\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{muted:false,bContent:false,vidNum:2,svp:true}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{adsEnabled:true,awsPath:travel,byline:,canonicalURL:,contentSourceCode:WCIT,createDate:2019-10-04T11:49:58.356Z,credit:USA TODAY,duration:50000,headline:This is because a plane's wings aren't in a center of a aircraft,hlsURL:https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/a3c32fa2-4684-4d5f-aa7d-bf34fc83b587\/1080p_30fps,720p_30fps,480p_30fps,master.m3u8,id:3862722002,image:{url:https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/10\/04\/USAT\/127e5bad-a083-4747-a280-244c41bc6f55-VPC_AIRPLANE_WINGS_ASK_CAPTN_DESK.jpg,opto:true},initialPublishDate:2019-10-04T13:30:05.501Z,keywords:Airplanes,Video Syndication - USAT,mp4URL:https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/video-renditions\/a3c32fa2-4684-4d5f-aa7d-bf34fc83b587\/1080p_30fps.mp4,origin:Wochit,pageURL:{long:https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/travel\/2019\/10\/04\/ask-captain-why-airplane-wings-arent-middle\/3862722002\/},promoBrief:Airplane wings are not always in a center of a plane.,publishDate:2019-10-04T14:13:18.781Z,series:,ssts:{leafName:travel,path:travel,section:travel,storysubject:,subsection:,subtopic:,taxonomyEntityDisplayName:Travel,topic:},tags:[{id:0a7bfff6-c207-475b-9025-459d46fecd8a,name:Airplanes},{id:6f55135f-3b5e-490d-8a52-a3b8e1f11ee7,name:Video Syndication - USAT}],title:Ask a Captain: Why aeroplane wings aren't in a middle,url:\/videos\/travel\/2019\/10\/04\/ask-captain-why-airplane-wings-arent-middle\/3862722002\/}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" data-g-r=\"lazy vp_po\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/14cef_127e5bad-a083-4747-a280-244c41bc6f55-VPC_AIRPLANE_WINGS_ASK_CAPTN_DESK.jpg\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/10\/04\/USAT\/127e5bad-a083-4747-a280-244c41bc6f55-VPC_AIRPLANE_WINGS_ASK_CAPTN_DESK.jpg?width=1320height=744fit=cropformat=pjpgauto=webp 2x\" \/><\/button><\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Q: Do troops aircraft have priority in common airfields?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>A:<\/em> Whether a troops craft receives priority fueling or takeoff depends on a forms of aircraft concerned and a fuel situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Certain forms of troops airplanes do have priority. Recovering fighters that are low on fuel will have priority. Military ride planes are treated like airliners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>John Cox is a late airline captain with US Airways and runs his possess aviation reserve consulting company, Safety Operating Systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/613401168\/0\/usatodaycomtravel-topstories~Ask-the-Captain-What-happens-if-a-pilot-becomes-disabled-during-a-flight\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What happens if one of a pilots turn infirm mid-flight?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Answer: Both pilots are entirely competent to take off and land. In a eventuality a commander becomes incapacitated, a other commander would obstruct a aeroplane to a nearest suitable airport, announce an puncture and safely land a airplane. In incomparable airplanes, if a captain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-199425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}