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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:25 PM
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Pilots who overshot airport weren't sleeping--now they say they were on their laptops--
http://www.komonews.com/news/national/66060537.html

They were doing crew scheduling on their laptops? Why would that make them unresponsive to continued attempts to communicate with them?

Sounds rather strange.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:26 PM
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1. BS!
I still think they were doing something *inappropriate* in the cockpit.
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Windy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:26 PM
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2. World of Warcraft maybe???? nt
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MNDemNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:26 PM
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3. surfin' porn and jacking off.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:27 PM
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4. SEX!
Either they were having it or watching it on their laptops...the only sure-fire way to lose track of time.
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:36 PM
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16. That kinda adds a whole new meaning to cockpit.
:evilgrin:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:28 PM
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5. I sympathize.
They just wanted one more turn of Civilization.
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TygrBright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:28 PM
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6. Probably looking for jobs that pay better than "Airline Pilot" n/t
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:35 PM
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14. Nah, that would have taken about 3 minutes
:eyes:
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Soylent Brice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:38 PM
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17. LMAO
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:29 PM
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7. No chance.
I fly a lot and I pay attention to the estimated flight time they give at the beginning of the flight. As it nears, I start looking for signs of approach. Now if *I*, a lowly passenger, do that, surely the pilots do, too. Especially if it's their normal route that they fly all the time.

I call total BS on this.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:31 PM
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12. me too.. They realized they had both been asleep, and made damned sure
Edited on Mon Oct-26-09 02:31 PM by SoCalDem
that 30-minute recorder thing had recorded over their sleepytime, then coordinated their "excuse"..and they will stick to it.

polygraph them, then fire them.
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:29 PM
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8. Playing Flight Simulator, surely...nt
Sid
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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:30 PM
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9. I've heard it suggested...
...that they left the radio frequency set for Denver ATC, and didn't pick up the signal from Minneapolis.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:46 PM
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23. But going that long with dead air? No way.
They'd KNOW something was wrong with their frequency and they'd figure it out.
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Jazzgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:30 PM
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10. I think they were diddling with each other.
There! I said it! They weren't asleep or arguing but they just can't say now what they were doing??!!?? Diddling!
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:30 PM
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11. Didn't they hear the announcement about stowing all electronic gear in preparation for landing?
OH the IRONY... It HURTZ!!

Captain twittering: We just passed FL 290 going to FL 210, reducing speed to 0.67 Mach.

Co-pilot twittering: I just informed the captain our fuel at 18 zero zero zero pounds and reducing our speed to 0.67 Mach.

:eyes:
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:46 PM
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21. Looking for the weather ship at Tango Delta
"Hell, I didn't fly all this way just to drop my load in the drink!"
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:46 PM
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22. No, it Mega-Hertz
This is so spooky. Both of these guys need to find another job.

Hekate
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:34 PM
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13. Guess multi-tasking wasn't their specialty.
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inna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:35 PM
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15. wow. it's getting stranger and stranger. i wonder what really was going on.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:39 PM
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18. Either that or the flight attendants were on their "laptops" nt
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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 04:02 PM
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25. That was my first thought.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:42 PM
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19. The crew scheduling couldn't wait until they'd landed?
And is it such an intensive thing do to they forgot they were flying a plane for more than an hour? TORO TURD!

:headbang:
rocktivity
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LeftHander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:43 PM
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20. doh....dupe
Edited on Mon Oct-26-09 02:43 PM by LeftHander
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-26-09 02:49 PM
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24. LOL...It took about 3 posts for rule 34 to hit this thread like a MOFO
:rofl:
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