Ten minutes might not seem long – unless you’re in the air with no conscious pilot in the cockpit. That’s exactly what happened on a Lufthansa flight last February. The flight from Frankfurt to Seville started like any other. The captain got up to use the bathroom, leaving his co-pilot in charge – a routine practice in commercial flights. Then everything changed. The 38-year-old co-pilot suddenly had a seizure and blacked out. Just like a driver fainting at the wheel, but in this case, at cruising altitude in an Airbus A321. The difference? The plane’s autopilot kept everything steady, like … Continue reading Lufthansa Airbus A321 Flies 10 Minutes Without Pilot After Co-Pilot Seizure Mid-Air