Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Two mesa pilots in a CRJ fell asleep, overshot one of the Hawaiian islands, headed out to sea and almost flamed out before they made it back to land. CA had OSA for sure, I believe that incident was the catalyst although the post-colgan fatigue studies probably played a role.
Also any of a number of fatigue-involved accidents might have been affected in the past. It's a reasonable suspicion, and can't be disproved.
The Captain had OSA but the FO did not, so the FO shouldn't have been wide awake. Unless there are more reasons than OSA that would cause a pilot to fall asleep in the cockpit?
There was also an article on this but according to it the NTSB has not found it to be a cause of any accident. The pilots who have had known OSA and had accidents had accidents that had nothing to do with falling asleep.
http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/pilo...l#.VQ2st454p_M