50 Percent of British Pilots Admit to Sleeping in Cockpit

We doubt that even 50 percent of cubicle dwellers have napped at jobs that aren't life-or-death, but the British Airlines Pilots Asssociation (BAPA)'s survey this year found that nearly half of pilots had—and those were just the ones who fessed up to it. Even worse? One-third of those pilots said that the other pilot was also asleep in the cockpit when they woke up, meaning that both pilots were literally asleep at the wheel.