According to reports, the pilots were out of it when the plane failed to descend.
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The commercial aviation news website Aviation Herald said that two pilots are thought to have dozed off and missed their landing on a flight from Sudan to Ethiopia on Monday
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According to the report, the event happened on board an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 when it was flying from Khartoum to Addis Abeba
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"The pilots fell asleep," the report stated, and "the aircraft went past the top of descent."
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The website's data reveals that on August 15, when the plane failed to land at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport as planned, it was travelling at 37,000 feet on autopilot.
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Air Traffic control apparently made many attempts to contact the crew but was unable to do so. the plane overshot the runway and proceeded on the path, setting off an alert.
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After starting to descend, the aircraft made a safe landing around 25 minutes later
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