Passengers and ATC alike in Ethiopia were in for a scare on Monday when Ethiopian Airlines flight ET343 from Khartoum, Sudan (KRT) to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa (ADD) failed to descend as expected.
Instead, the plane remained on autopilot at 37,000 feet (FL370) as it passed over the runway and approach path. The likely explanation: the pilots were asleep. Air Traffic Control had repeatedly attempted to contact the pilots to no avail,…