Cabin crew were forced to intervene as the pilot and co-pilot laid into each other.
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The flight continued and landed safely, and the dispute didn’t affect the rest of the flight, the official said, stressing the airline’s commitment to safety.
Switzerland’s La Tribune reported the pilot and co-pilot had a dispute shortly after take-off, and grabbed each other by their collars after one apparently hit the other. Cabin crew intervened, and one crew member spent the flight in the cockpit with the pilots, the report said. News of the fight emerged after France’s air investigation agency, BEA, issued a report on saying some Air France pilots lack rigour in respecting procedures during safety incidents.
It focused on a fuel leak on an Air France flight from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo to Paris in December 2020, when pilots rerouted the plane but didn’t cut power to the engine or land as soon as possible, as leak procedure requires.
The plane landed safely in Chad, but the BEA report warned the engine could have caught fire.
It mentioned three similar cases between 2017 and 2022, and said some pilots were acting based on their own analysis of the situation instead of safety protocols.
Air France said it was carrying out a safety audit in response. It pledged to follow the BEA’s recommendations, which include allowing pilots to study their flights afterwards and making training manuals stricter about sticking to procedure.
The airline noted it flies thousands of flights daily and the report mentions only four such safety incidents. Air France pilots’ unions have insisted that security is paramount to all pilots and defended pilot actions during emergency situations.
The BEA also investigated an incident in April involving an Air France flight from New York’s JFK airport that suffered flight control problems on approach to its landing in Paris.
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