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- <text id=91TT2244>
- <title>
- Oct. 07, 1991: This is Your Captain Snoring
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 07, 1991 Defusing the Nuclear Threat
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- This Is Your Captain Snoring
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Sidney Urquhart/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
- </p>
- <p> The law forbids airline cockpit crews to sleep in flight,
- but weary pilots have been known to nod off on occasion. Crew
- fatigue is increasing because today's jumbo jets can remain
- airborne for 17 hours and longer. As a result, experts at NASA
- and the Federal Aviation Administration have decided that it's
- time to change the rules to allow for preplanned, in-flight
- napping by one crew member at a time. The pilots would then be
- refreshed for descent and landing. The rule change might also
- help discourage the use of pep pills or other drugs.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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