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Uploaded by on Oct 23, 2009

Two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles before discovering the mistake and turning around. (Oct. 23)

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  • Man, that Monica Lewinsky sure has been working out!! ; D

  • ah they were boning

  • They were deep texting! Overshot by more than 150 miles in air...would have been fun if it was on the ground...LOL

  • The point is ,this sleeping thing goes on more then you think, normaly pilots take turns. It is just a matter of time that both pilots will find themself both asleep. That time has unfortunately come. Chris

  • I was an Flight Engineer on a flight out of Miami some years back. We were well established on our route and I told the Capt. that I was going to take 20 winks, when I woke we were in a 200 to 300' descent (The DC-6 we were in didn't have a working autopilot) at that point I nudged the co-pilot and asked him how his golf game has been (I was very diplomatic), and we recovered, he did tell me his game was a bit down lately, but that probably didn't have nothing to do with it, I am sure. Chris

  • Look , using lap tops this is all a bull excuse, the fact of the matter is both pilots were asleep. Everything points to sleeping, for example there was no radio contact, no let down, there was no answer on any of the many frequencies theey use, why? simple, they were both asleep, all they are doing is to save as much face as possible and to admit they were asleep would make them the laughing crew of all airlines, or idiots which ever comes first. Chris J. LeFevre

  • To SneakerHustler

    No, they were no playing Battleship, they were having sex with each other GOOD FOR THEM!!! :-)

  • I agree with ballroomstyle, PILOTS WERE HAVING SEX WITH EACH OTHER!!!

    THEY ARE GREAT PILOTS!!! They could have sex and then land the plane safely :-)

  • the pilots were having sex with each other

  • According to reports, they were snoozing so deeply that even a flight attendant couldn't wake them up.

    And this as well from the NY Post... "The silence continued until 8:14 p.m. when the pilots realized they were over Eau Claire, Wis. By that time, the Air National Guard was preparing to launch four jets from two bases."

    If the pilots hadn't woken up, it is entirely possible that the fighters would have been ordered to shoot the plane down.

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