Fatigue confused 767 pilot before erroneous evasive dive

By 2012-04-17T14:07:00

Air Canada 767,

Sleep inertia lay behind a bizarre Air Canada in-flight upset after a pilot executed an evasive manoeuvre after misperceiving aircraft lights, and a planet, as a potential collision threat.

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