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You are here: Home / Politics / International / Flight Aborted : New York flight aborted mid air over Pilot being ‘untrained’

Flight Aborted : New York flight aborted mid air over Pilot being ‘untrained’

Published by yashodhara On May 6, 2022

Flight Aborted: In an unusual incident a Virgin Atlantic flight from Heathrow to New York had to return to London after it was discovered that one of the pilots had not completed his training.

Virgin Atlantic blamed a “rostering issue” and apologised to passengers for the disruption. It said internal training rules had been breached. Virgin Atlantic managers realised shortly after take-off that one of the pilots had not completed their training.

Flight Aborted

Flight Aborted

This meant that the flight’s captain was not qualified to fly alongside a first officer who had not fully completed Virgin Atlantic training.

A new pilot was found after the plane returned to Heathrow. The flight eventually arrived at New York’s JFK airport two hours and 40 minutes late.

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The captain was described by sources as “highly experienced” with “many thousands of hours of flight time during 17 years at Virgin Atlantic”. His co-pilot was a first officer who joined Virgin Atlantic in 2017. He is trained, fully licensed and fully type-rated in accordance with UK regulation, but was pending a “final assessment” flight.

Flight Aborted

Untrained Pilot

The airline says it has reviewed its internal procedures to avoid a repeat of the incident. Virgin Atlantic said that both crew members were fully licensed and qualified to operate the aircraft. airline said the flight was aborted because the pilot pairing did not meet its training protocols as the captain did not hold designated trainer status.

Pilots blamed Britain’s “draconian Covid restrictions” that have put airlines’ training systems under strain.

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