Pilots interact in fisticuff throughout flight, suspended by airline

Air France has suspended two pilots who engaged one another in a combat contained in the cockpit of an Airbus A320 flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Paris CDG, France.

In an announcement by the airline, the pilot and copilot received into an argument shortly after takeoff and shortly after, engaged one another in a brawl earlier than the cabin crew intervened and separated the combatants.

An airline spokesman mentioned on Monday that the pilot and co-pilot, who stay anonymous, had a dispute shortly after takeoff and grabbed one another by their collars after considered one of them threw a punch.

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“The incident was shortly resolved with out affecting the conduct or security of the flight, which continued usually.

“The pilots involved are at the moment suspended from flying and are awaiting a managerial determination on the end result/therapy of the incident. Air France reminds us that the protection of its prospects and crew members is its absolute precedence,” the airline spokesperson mentioned within the assertion.

The information concerning the preventing pilots was made public when the Bureau of Enquiry and Evaluation for Civil Aviation Security (BEA) launched a report that famous a number of incidents by which Air France pilots didn’t adhere to security procedures.