The high excitement of travel is never totally free from peril. The government’s air safety board has concluded that a sleepy Air Canada co-pilot first mistook the planet Venus for an aircraft, and then sent his airliner diving toward the Atlantic to prevent an imaginary collision with another plane. It’s an event to start the fail-safe experts heading back to the drawing board in their quest for safety. The picture above shows a sparkling Venus. If this is what the pilot saw as he woke up it would be frigthening indeed. Sixteen passengers and crew were hurt in the January 2011 incident, when the first officer rammed the control stick forward to avoid a U.S. plane he wrongly thought was heading straight toward him. Bloomberg