NWA Flight Misses by a Mile---150 Miles!

Oh come on....like none of us ever got into a heated debate and lost track of time. I do it all the time on AN!!

well, at least they told the truth about it being "heated".

(moog, have any links to that story?)

leslie:stone

WASHINGTON — Not sleeping, the pilots say. They were engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptop computers as their plane flew past its Minneapolis landing by 150 miles – a cockpit violation of airline policy that could cost them their licenses.
They were so focused on the scheduling – quite a complicated matter for the pilots after Delta Air Lines acquired Northwest Airlines a year ago – that they were out of communication with air traffic controllers and their airline for more than an hour. They didn't realize their mistake until contacted by a flight attendant about five minutes before the flight's scheduled landing last Wednesday night, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.

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