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Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:45:01 -0700
whiteguyinchina from private IP, post #15357173
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Northwest Airlines flight 188
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_188
During the flight, Denver ARTCC (where contact was lost) instructed the pilots to contact the Minneapolis ARTCC as the aircraft was leaving Denver's airspace.
However, the pilots did not do so. Both the Denver and Minneapolis ARTCC made several unsuccessful attempts to reach the pilots. At the request of the
Minneapolis ARTCC, Northwest's dispatchers made at least eight attempts to reach the pilots and urge them to reestablish radio contact, without success.[7] When
other pilots in the area got word of the situation, they tried to help the controllers, attempting to reach the pilots as well. Northwest also sent them a radio
text message, which went unanswered. Authorities were concerned enough that NORAD readied fighter jets to check on the welfare of the plane. Officials at the
White House Situation Room were alerted as well.[8]
Just as the fighter jets were about to scramble, air traffic control at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport reestablished radio contact with the plane at
8:14 p.m. CDT, by which time the flight was over Eau Claire, Wisconsin, roughly 100 miles (160 km) east of Minneapolis. Captain Timothy Cheney and first officer
Richard Cole said that they were not aware of their location until a flight attendant asked them what time they were due to land. The overshoot concerned air
traffic controllers enough that they had the pilots perform a series of maneuvers to confirm the pilots were in control of the plane, as well as to verify that
the transponder target they were receiving on their radar was indeed Flight 188. The aircraft finally landed, over an hour late, at 9:04 p.m. CDT.[6]
Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:46:14 -0700
whiteguyinchina from private IP
Reply #19789935
During the investigation, Cheney and Cole told National Transportation Safety Board investigators that they were going
over schedules using their laptop computers—a serious breach of piloting fundamentals, as well as a violation of Delta Air Lines policy (Delta had recently
merged with Northwest). The pilots denied suggestions from some aviation safety experts that they had fallen asleep.[8] The cockpit voice recorder retains only
the last 30 minutes of audio after being powered off and thus audio recordings were not available for the complete duration of the flight's loss of radio
contact.[9]
Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:59:05 -0700
marlon from private IP
Reply #16182746
https://edition.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/03/15/wayward.pilots.licenses/?hpt=T2
Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:01:29 -0700
marlon from private IP
Reply #19446730
always wondered how pilots could take a nap during flying, see France in 2009
Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:10:08 -0700
shithead from private IP
Reply #18408425
FAA pulled the pilots’ licenses in six days. That’s bureaucratic fury.
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