Pilots in safety scares after falling asleep mid-air while flying

The pilots, who have not been named, were said to have been left alone in their cockpits when their co-pilots left the flight desk.

Authorities reportedly refused to identify the men, who were working with British, because it would breach data protection laws.

The safety scares emerged as the British Airlines Pilots Association warned the problem was commonplace.

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Sleepy woman flies Pakistan to France, and back

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) are investigating how ground crew failed to notice the woman during the plane's two-hour stopover at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.


 The woman, named as Patrice Christine Ahmed, who is married to a Pakistani, left Lahore at noon on Tuesday to fly to Paris via Milan, but did not wake up to get off the plane, airline spokesman Sultan Hasan said.

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