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Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:45:01 -0700
whiteguyinchina from private IP,
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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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