these guys are in BIGGGGGG trouble....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33436497/ns/us_news-life/

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Doesn't add up.

If you're in an "argument", you still hear the radio................


My bet: They both fell asleep..........

Brian- So at what altitude do you think the alarm went off?

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From what I gathered, they were steady at altitude..............who knows what finally woke them...........maybe the flight attendant...........

Maybe the flight attendant's should carry air horns for this.

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Yeah, or perhaps just a bad phaquin dream..... Either way you look at it, a lotta people are gonna be tryin' to live this one down for a long phaquin time...

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Oh man, doesn't look good if that's the case. Do they record every minute of speech in the cockpit? If so, this story about arguing about airline policy is going to fall flat if not true.

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They do............IIRC it's the last 60 minutes............the tape runs in a loop.

New recorders retain as much as two hours of cockpit conversation and other noise, but the older model aboard Northwest's Flight 188 includes just the last 30 minutes — only the very end of Wednesday night's flight after the pilots realized their error over Wisconsin and were heading back to Minneapolis.

Bull FAWKING ****. They best hope that the union will jump in to save their sorry butts.

150 miles past their Minneapolis destination and military jets scrambled to chase them.

After that? I don't know about you but I wouldn't hire them for anything in the airplane except vacuum detail.

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Not to mention see the GPS map move right onto your pre-programmed destination and beyond... The flight clock... The FMS... (the list goes on)

I’m thinking they snoozed as well.

All I know for sure is that when I heard this story on the morning news.
I almost ruptured something, I laughed so hard.

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Think they keep their jobs...........??

Seeing as how many people are out of work today, employers should be spoiled for choice. Should they? No. 150 miles off is a lot of miles off. I don't care of they were sleeping, jerking each other off or talking about airline policy. Bottom line is they were too far off for an "oops". Either they were incapable or incompetent. With a union in place, I suspect they will have their wrists slapped and then keep their jobs.

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The question wasn't directed to you. You have already weighed in on the matter...........and repetition won't make your case any stronger.

If you're awake. Then 2 miles, is 2 miles too far off for an "oops".
No excuse if you're awake.

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uh, so obviously the pilots flew poorly because they are unionized? thanks for clearing that one up for us.

you know, applying your logic, one could say that corporations and banks should also be outlawed. follow this path:

let's see, some unions are corrupt,(or is that all of them? according to you?), so get rid of them.

obviously, banks and corporations in general are corrupt - see enron, anyone on wall street in the last ten (?, probably more) years, what with insider trading, collateraliized debt obligations, madoffs and the like, milken and friends, halliburton with its overcharging etc. so logic suggests that... we ban them. sounds good to me.

i am sure you will agree.

p.s. continuous whining is not constructive, nor are broken records and one-trick ponies. just a general thought for the day. we report, you decide.

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