Fitness for Duty, Human Factors
Anxiety drove an A319 copilot from the cockpit during an approach to Glasgow; experts say his fear wasn’t unique.
The copilot of an Airbus A319 experienced an anxiety attack so severe that he had to leave the flight deck during a 2018 approach to Glasgow, Scotland. He told incident investigators that he was “overthinking” the approach, which came one day after shifting winds prompted the commander to conduct the first go-around that the first officer had experienced in the airplane.1
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