Fatigue led a pilot to send a passenger plane into adive over the North Atlantic, injuring 16 people lastyear, BBC reported。

　　The drama began when the co-pilot of the AirCanada flight from Toronto to Zurich woke up andwrongly believed the plane was on a collisioncourse. He mistook the planet Venus for anotherplane。

　　Passengers without their seat belts on were thrownfrom their seats。

　　The report said that during the January 2011 flightthe pilot had a 75-minute nap, failing to follow procedure for controlled sleeps of 40 minutes each。

　　據(jù)英國廣播公司報(bào)道，2011年1月，一名飛行員因疲勞駕駛，導(dǎo)致客機(jī)向北大西洋俯沖而下，16名乘客受傷。

　　事件發(fā)生在加拿大航空公司一趟由多倫多飛往蘇黎世的航班的飛行途中。當(dāng)時(shí)，副駕駛剛剛睡醒，誤將金星當(dāng)成另一架飛機(jī)，認(rèn)為客機(jī)已進(jìn)入碰撞軌跡。

　　后來，機(jī)上未系安全帶的乘客被甩出座位。

　　報(bào)告稱，副駕駛在機(jī)上睡了75分鐘，超過了規(guī)定的每次40分鐘可控睡眠時(shí)限。