NW Pilots miss Minneapolis airport!
Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 12:00http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8321748.stm
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Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 12:00Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 12:01Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 12:03Nick beat you to it !
Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 14:27Topics merged
Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 20:16So were they sleeping, fornicating or sleeping after fornicating 
Posted: 23 Oct 2009, 20:22quote:Originally posted by napamatt
So were they sleeping, fornicating or sleeping after fornicating
what makes you think it was illicit [:w][:?]
So were they sleeping, fornicating or sleeping after fornicating
what makes you think it was illicit [:w][:?]
Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 18:31Here is a Link to a piece in the LA Times.
We all know sleeping on the job occurs but when it is in the cockpit of a passenger aircraft, it becomes very worrying!
We all know sleeping on the job occurs but when it is in the cockpit of a passenger aircraft, it becomes very worrying!
Posted: 24 Oct 2009, 19:18It's not just the 100 miles past their destination.
They were out of contact for at least 74 minutes.
No response to numerous ATC calls - ignored the autopilot chime for destination - no CC contacts to check ( this is SOP every 20 minutes for most airlines over here)
Very surprising that they did not get an F16 awakening.
Even so a much more dangerous situation occurred this week with a Delta flight from Rio to Atlanta.
They landed on the taxiway instead of the runway!
150 pax who were very lucky nothing else was on that taxiway (at night but unusual for taxiway to be quiet at ATL)
Interesting that the media are all over the 'sleeping' incident but little mention of the Delta flight.
Be glad when the week is over and it won't be 3rd time (un)lucky.
They were out of contact for at least 74 minutes.
No response to numerous ATC calls - ignored the autopilot chime for destination - no CC contacts to check ( this is SOP every 20 minutes for most airlines over here)
Very surprising that they did not get an F16 awakening.
Even so a much more dangerous situation occurred this week with a Delta flight from Rio to Atlanta.
They landed on the taxiway instead of the runway!
150 pax who were very lucky nothing else was on that taxiway (at night but unusual for taxiway to be quiet at ATL)
Interesting that the media are all over the 'sleeping' incident but little mention of the Delta flight.
Be glad when the week is over and it won't be 3rd time (un)lucky.
Posted: 25 Oct 2009, 15:47Worrying comment at the end of that piece Bill...
The FAA's Kathleen Bergen said, 'We've had a number of these cases occurring at Palm Beach International Airport,' she says. 'That is causing us to take a look at the airport layout.'
Somewhere to avoid methinks!
The FAA's Kathleen Bergen said, 'We've had a number of these cases occurring at Palm Beach International Airport,' she says. 'That is causing us to take a look at the airport layout.'
Somewhere to avoid methinks!
Posted: 25 Oct 2009, 16:04First officer was cornered at home yesterday and told the media, emphatically, no, we weren't asleep, we were not fighting. But I can't say exactly what we were doing because there are investigations, we're being interviewed by FAA, etc.
If it is true that they were not asleep, is there any way that they could have been oblivious to all of the warnings, audible and visual, that they were passing their destination?
Chuck-
If it is true that they were not asleep, is there any way that they could have been oblivious to all of the warnings, audible and visual, that they were passing their destination?
Chuck-
Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 11:07Well my first thought was that they were sleeping, however from what I have heard down the grapevine and is purely rumor, both the pilot and first officer were engrossed on their laptops.....
Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 13:01quote:Originally posted by Scrooge
Well my first thought was that they were sleeping, however from what I have heard down the grapevine and is purely rumor, both the pilot and first officer were engrossed on their laptops.....
Not a rumour any more.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/am ... 327073.stm
Well my first thought was that they were sleeping, however from what I have heard down the grapevine and is purely rumor, both the pilot and first officer were engrossed on their laptops.....
Not a rumour any more.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/am ... 327073.stm
Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 13:50Maybe they were reading the TRs on V-flyer!
Posted: 27 Oct 2009, 19:13And now another.