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Mangalore crash: Did AI force tired pilot to fly?

MUMBAI: Air India seems to have tampered with its pilots flight roster to keep under wraps a crucial detail about the Mangalore plane crash that killed 158 people on May 22 last year. Capt Zlatko Glusica, who was commanding the flight that overshot the tabletop runway, was initially not rostered to operate the Mangalore-Dubai-Mangalore flight and it wasnt clear when he was informed about his flight and whether there was any coercion on part of the airline to get him to agree. It is a very significant detail that holds clues to the amount of sleep and rest Capt Glusica could have got before he stepped into the cockpit. The cockpit voice recorder data of the crashed aircraft showed Capt Glusica was fatigued. The dead commanders son, Alexander Glusica, who is also a pilot, told TOI that his father, just back from vacation, appeared to have been called in at the last moment and the original crew roster, which he had downloaded from his dads laptop did not have him marked to fly the Mangalore-Dubai-Mangalore route. He said he and his father always knew each others email passwords

                                                                                                               
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