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About Sleep Deprived Pilots Flying In Complete Darkness | Dangerous Flights

With a new rule about night time landing ruining their arrival plans, these pilots must continue on far beyond what they were expecting and fly into the night with nothing but complete darkness around them. With no visual aids to help them, its easy for pilots to make life-threatening mistakes. Not all flights are a smooth ride to a tropical destination. These pilots have the dangerous job of delivering small aircraft all over the world, pushing these machines to their limits and facing the harshest conditions that nature throws at them. WONDER is packed with binge worthy reality documentaries for hours of entertainment. Check out our hub of diverse and empowering stories which explore the extreme side of life!

Sleep Deprived Pilots Flying In Complete Darkness | Dangerous Flights is presented by Wonder. Its listed runtime is 46 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

As a society documentary, Sleep Deprived Pilots Flying In Complete Darkness | Dangerous Flights uses sleep, deprived, pilots as its central frame. Social documentaries work best as invitations to examine systems through lived experience. Distinguish individual testimony from wider claims, and consider which institutions, incentives and inequalities shape the choices shown.

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Title
Sleep Deprived Pilots Flying In Complete Darkness | Dangerous Flights
Category
Society
Runtime
46 minutes
Language
English
Publisher
Wonder

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