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1 posted on 06/26/2008 11:16:14 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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This wouldn’t happen if they just allowed gays to get married............


2 posted on 06/26/2008 11:19:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
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Two 'go!' airline pilots fell asleep while flying from Honolulu to Hilo, cruising past their destination for 18 minutes...

Not a good location to catch up on zzz's. With fuel levels carefully measured for just the flight (plus legal reserves of 45 minutes), only a few minutes longer would have caused a forced ocean ditching.

3 posted on 06/26/2008 11:22:30 AM PDT by C210N (The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)
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To: LibWhacker

This would have been a good opportunity for the old placing their hand in a pail of warm water joke .


4 posted on 06/26/2008 11:23:59 AM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know)
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, the plane was about half way to Goa.

“You can’t land here! Goa round.”


5 posted on 06/26/2008 11:24:23 AM PDT by saganite
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To: LibWhacker

Might have been bitten by an errant tse-tse fly causing sleeping sickness.


6 posted on 06/26/2008 11:26:51 AM PDT by CWWren (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress....but I repeat myself.)
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To: LibWhacker

These are the types of cheap flights Bill Shatner gets you on via PriceLine.com


7 posted on 06/26/2008 11:28:36 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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Reminds me of the Delta/Western flights landing at the wrong airports, overshooting SFO all the way out the the Farallon Islands, and a few other mistakes.


8 posted on 06/26/2008 11:29:45 AM PDT by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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Air India needs to stock up on this:
9 posted on 06/26/2008 11:30:51 AM PDT by Cecily
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I suppose falling asleep can be deemed technically accurate as "communications failure."

I marvel at modern technology, and the benefits it provides. I marvel more at the other similar events that we will never hear about, since the complex technology silently worked as intended.

10 posted on 06/26/2008 11:31:15 AM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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A friend of the family is a retired commercial airlines pilot and he said one time on a flight, the crew dozed off simultaneously for about 15 minutes. When they awoke and realized their predicament, they declared a weather emergency and diverted to the nearest airport. No one ever found them out.


13 posted on 06/26/2008 11:52:51 AM PDT by fso301
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What happened to Bombay? What? Reminds everyone of the Empire? Mumbai sounds pussified.


14 posted on 06/26/2008 12:01:46 PM PDT by muleskinner
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On the bright side, the passengers got a lot of extra frequent flyer miles.


18 posted on 06/26/2008 12:14:09 PM PDT by Jaxter (Everything I needed to know about Obama I learned by Googling "Black Liberation Theology".)
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...the plane was about half way to Goa.

WHOA!


20 posted on 06/26/2008 12:17:18 PM PDT by JRios1968 ("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
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The flight schedules of pilots prior to this flight is not known.

Might want to check their bar schedules as well.

21 posted on 06/26/2008 12:19:10 PM PDT by Recovering Hermit ("A liberal feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.")
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Too damn funny.

Usually when the pilots say “Lay back and relax and enjoy the flight” it’s for the passengers....


23 posted on 06/26/2008 12:31:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: LibWhacker

Why do I have a mental image of the pilot mumbling something about birdie num-nums?


26 posted on 06/26/2008 12:46:50 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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Are they the same pilots that flew Hawaiian Ail that overshot the runway in Hawaii??


29 posted on 06/26/2008 1:04:07 PM PDT by MaineConservative
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To: Paleo Conservative

aerospace ping


30 posted on 06/26/2008 1:10:49 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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