That was a reference to Continental crew members who were said to have discussed a flight attendant’s dating habits before their jet crashed on takeoff in Denver in 1987, killing 28 people. ″Then the media would have some kind of a juicy tidbit,″ the crew member said. While the Delta flight crew waited for takeoff, an unidentified crew member said, ″We forgot to discuss about the dating habits of our flight attendants so we could get it on the recorder in case we crashed.″ In aviation, the sterile flight deck rule or sterile cockpit rule is a procedural requirement that during critical phases of flight (normally below 10,000 feet (3,050 m)), only activities required for the safe operation of the aircraft may be carried out by the flight crew, and all non-essential activities in the cockpit are forbidden. The conversation involved the cabin crew and a flight attendant who was forbidden by law to be in the cabin while the plane was in motion. Per federal regulations, prohibited activities during these times include taking calls not related to the safety of the flight, dealing with.
The tape made by the cockpit voice recorder on Flight 1141 was released under a judge’s order Tuesday, revealing crew member’s views on news coverage of other crashes, Jesse Jackson’s politics and Marilyn Quayle’s looks. The sterile cockpit rule defines critical phases of flight as ground operations involving taxiing, takeoff and landing, and all flight operations below 10,000 feet except cruise flight. There is general enthusiasm for applying strategies from aviation directly to medical care the application of the sterile cockpit rule to surgery has. In the minutes before a Delta jet crashed on takeoff last August, the crew joked that a plane wreck would one day expose their gleeful cockpit conversation to the public. The operating theatre has been shown to be an often noisy environment 6-9. As this AP story from 1989 reports on the Delta crash: Subsequently, the ‘sterile cockpit’ rule was introduced in 1981 4, 5, prohibiting non-essential activity during critical phases of flight specifically take-off and landing to ensure that pilots are not distracted from their duties. Commonly known as the sterile cockpit rule, these regulations specifically prohibit crew member performance of non-essential duties or activities while. It might be Delta 1141, which crashed just after takeoff from DFW in 1988, or Continental 1713, which crashed just after takeoff from Denver in 1987.
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