First 'unmanned' flight ....

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How common is this on America's scheduled carriers ??

(NEW YORK) — Southwest Airlines has marked their very first “unmanned” flight.

The company tweeted photos on Oct. 18 of the all-female crew posing before takeoff on the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.

The first “unmanned” Southwest flight on a @BoeingAirplanes 737 MAX 8! All-female Crew pic taken before flying STL – SFO. pic.twitter.com/7V8ir6PBZa


— Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) October 18, 2017

The plane was headed from St. Louis to San Francisco.

Four flight attendants took a photo in the main cabin area along with the female pilot and co-pilot.

The pilots also posed for a picture inside the cockpit.

According to 2016 data from the Federal Aviation Administration, there were an estimated 39,187 active women airmen certificates held out of 584,362 pilots total.

Southwest followers replied to the company’s tweet on the crew, commending the women working the flight that day.

Southwest Airlines has not yet replied to ABC News’ request for a comment.

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surely not the first all-female flight crew https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=all+female+flight+crew&qpvt=all+female+flight+crew&FORM=IGRE
 
so I can't always spell correctly !!
First 'unmanneded' flight ....

anyway to correct this ??
 
Hawaiian's first all female crew pairing occurred in the late 1970s. Even PIA, the national carrier of a country that has a less than stellar history of treatment of women, flew an all female crew in the last 10 years. I'm pretty surprised Southwest hasn't already had this occur.
 
BobDDuck said:
Hawaiian's first all female crew pairing occurred in the late 1970s. Even PIA, the national carrier of a country that has a less than stellar history of treatment of women, flew an all female crew in the last 10 years. I'm pretty surprised Southwest hasn't already had this occur.
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First 737 max all female crew.
 
Not that common but generally it's an "ah, never thought about that" when it's an all black crew and someone mentions it.

But then I'm 46 and I kind of go to work to bust rocks and go home. :)
 
Isn't the real hero of this story the crew scheduler who put the pairing together? I mean, these gals just showed up to work that morning.
 
JordanD said:
This happens at my regional all the time. Never really gave it a second thought.
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We have plenty of female captains and first officers at my place. They are still a minority, though. Several times I've been the only male. All female crews happen here. If I saw one I'd give it a second... But certainly not a third.

Unique enough to be noteworthy. Not unique enough to blow my mind.
 
poser765 said:
We have plenty of female captains and first officers at my place. They are still a minority, though. Several times I've been the only male. All female crews happen here. If I saw one I'd give it a second... But certainly not a third.

Unique enough to be noteworthy. Not unique enough to blow my mind.
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Modifying the degree of "uniqueness" is what blows my mind. ;)
 
poser765 said:
We have plenty of female captains and first officers at my place. They are still a minority, though. Several times I've been the only male. All female crews happen here. If I saw one I'd give it a second... But certainly not a third.

Unique enough to be noteworthy. Not unique enough to blow my mind.
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Yeah, enough for me to be like "heh, that's cool. Anyway..." It's almost just as rare to be on an all male crew for me.
 
AI plane flies with wheels out, forced to land early

https://www.google.com/amp/m.timeso...ed-to-land-early/amp_articleshow/59747345.cms

:stir:

"After take off, both the women pilots forgot to retract the landing gear. As a result, the brand new Airbus A-320 continued to ascend at a very low climb rate. The plane finally gave up climbing after reaching an altitude of 24,000 feet as the extended landing gear meant very heavy drag. It then levelled out (continued flying at 24,000 feet as opposed to the usually assigned level of 35-37,000 feet) and flew at 230 knots (426 kmph) for the next 1.5 hours," said a source.

FWIW, I know plenty of male pilots who have pulled even dumber stuff.
 
These days getting a full compliment of FAs with no males in there is probably harder than turning a cockpit into a box office.
 
Bear said:
not Class A.
I 'assumed' that if they were not able to climb to their assigned FL, WHY questions would have been asked by someone !! and diagnostics pursued.
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Ummm ... they were. The gear was down. It made the news.
 
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AI plane flies with wheels out, forced to land early

https://www.google.com/amp/m.timeso...ed-to-land-early/amp_articleshow/59747345.cms

:stir:

"After take off, both the women pilots forgot to retract the landing gear. As a result, the brand new Airbus A-320 continued to ascend at a very low climb rate. The plane finally gave up climbing after reaching an altitude of 24,000 feet as the extended landing gear meant very heavy drag. It then levelled out (continued flying at 24,000 feet as opposed to the usually assigned level of 35-37,000 feet) and flew at 230 knots (426 kmph) for the next 1.5 hours," said a source.

FWIW, I know plenty of male pilots who have pulled even dumber stuff.
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We all make mistakes. Then we recognize them and fix them.
This is just... frightening.

That said, I'm going with "Indian issues" rather than "gender issues".

Then again, maybe they get paid by the flight hour and are über clever lassies.
 
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