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    Wrong-way pilots' cockpit tapes released

    By Alan Levin, USA TODAY

    Air-traffic controllers repeatedly gave instructions to change the course of a Northwest Airlines jet that had been out of radio contact for more than an hour as a test to ensure that it had not been hijacked, according to transcripts released today.

    Controllers also asked the two pilots several times to explain why they had flown so long without talking to ground controllers.

    DISTRACTED: Minneapolis-bound flight overshoots airport by 150 miles

    "I just have to verify that the cockpit is secure," said a controller at Minneapolis Center 86 seconds after the errant flight resumed radio transmissions.

    "It is secure," radioed one of the pilots. "We got distracted."

    Capt. Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., and co-pilot Richard Cole of Salem, Ore., told investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board that their Oct. 21 odyssey occurred because they had been working on their private laptops in an attempt to understand a new crew scheduling program, which had been introduced by Delta Air Lines. Delta owns Northwest.

    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revoked their licenses shortly after the incident, charging that they had been "reckless." The pilots flew one hour and 17 minutes without talking to controllers, cruising more than 150 miles past their destination in Minneapolis.

    The pilots have appealed their license revocations.

    Details: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/fligh...rt-tapes_N.htm

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    Pilots just wanna have fun...too

    A wise man speaks when he has something to say...A FOOL speaks when he just has to say something

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    It's really funny. In so many cases we see "pilot error" as a last resort from airlines, but this one takes the cake. You can't blame ATC on this one.

    "No one told me I was at the wrong airport". Those controllers!

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    [QUOTE=Buster;242306]Pilots just wanna have fun...too

    I think this was probably funnier just reading the body language, etc, than if we'd been distracted by understanding the language!
    That was good!
    I do feel sorry for the pilots' families, tho - I wonder at what point they will be able to laugh too?

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