Surveyed by the British Airline Pilots Association

Surveyed by the British Airline Pilots Association, two out of five U.K. pilots admitted falling asleep on the job. In one incident, a pilot strayed into a no-fly zone over the former Yugoslavia while asleep. In another, a captain woke up to discover that his first officer also had nodded off.

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