Drama in the sky: The pilot went to the toilet and the co -pilot fell unconscious. The plane was driving on an autopilot …

Lufthansa’s Airbus A321 aircraft on Frankfurt – Sevilla 17 February 2024. Ten minutes was driven by an autopilot because the co -pilot, who was left in the cockpit while the pilot went to the toilet, fainted, the Spanish investigators announced on Saturday last year’s incident.

Lufthansa confirmed that she was familiar with the report and announced that her flight department had conducted an extensive internal investigation into the incident.

But the company did not reveal the results of the investigation. The announcement states, « Please understand because we do not intend to make comments outside the investigation report. »

Although the Kopilot in the unconscious state obviously inadvertently controlled controls, the aircraft continued to fly stable thanks to the autopilot on.

The investigation has shown that the voter recorder recorded unusual sounds in the cockpit in the mentioned time, and they coincide with the acute medical urgent of the co -pilot, according to the report.

About 10 minutes later, the aircraft captain was able to open a cockpit security door with the help of a special emergency code. A month earlier, he completed his training for such a flight time.

The captain first tried to bring in the usual door opening five times, and he activates a buzz in a cockpit that was to warn the co -pilot to open the door to his colleague. However, since the co -pilot did not respond even then, the flight attendant tried to contact him by phone on the plane.

In the end, the captain was in an emergency code that allows him to open the door himself. However, just before the door was supposed to open, the co -opened co -opened co -operated from the inside, because in the meantime he came to consciousness.

Given that his colleague was bad, the pilot decided to land unplanned to Madrid, where the co -pilot was transported to the hospital.