Classic.
Posted on 10/24/2009 7:30:19 PM PDT by Yaelle
(CNN) -- The co-pilot of a Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis, Minnesota, airport by 150 miles says he and the pilot weren't asleep and they weren't arguing.
However, Richard I. Cole, who spoke to CNN affiliate KGW-TV from his Salem, Oregon, home, wouldn't say much more Friday. He said an investigation will reveal what took place.
After repeatedly saying he couldn't talk about the case, Cole said that contrary to media reports, "Nobody was asleep in the cockpit. No arguments took place.
"But other than that, I cannot tell you anything that went on because we're having hearings this weekend, we're having hearings on Tuesday. All that information will come out then."
(Video of co-pilot at his front door at link too.)
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Honestly, 150 miles isn’t much more than a big loop to enter the pattern.
Republican vs Democrat...maybe they were arguing about Obama politics....that would be interesting.
-PJ
He is pretty vehement that there was NO arguing, if you see the video.
Then why miss all the bells and whistles and normal common sense signals that you need to start descent and land?
Maybe one of them was seeking one of the last of the 57 states.
Maybe 150 miles isn’t much, but there was 45 minutes or 76 minutes of radio silence—the story is unclear—before they landed.
I don’t know if that includes flight time toward the airport when there was no attempt at contact, or whether air traffic controllers were unable to establish contact for all that time.
In other words, there’s still some explaining to do before this makes much sense.
steak or fish. ...
Where were the stewardesses?
The passengers should demand 300 additional frequent flyer miles.
They won’t say because whatever it was, was probably embarrassing as hell.
I was in a holding pattern into Minneapolis once, and all you could see was Wisconsin farmland down below.
Help I can’t find a picture from the movie airplane. Didn’t it have a pong game in the instrument panel when Striker sat down to fly the plane?.
Stoned ....
Pilot: what if there was a whole universe in the molecules under your fingernail?
Co-pilot: that means that our universe could be ...
Pilot: molecules in a giant fingernail ....
Co-pilot: far out, man ....
Pilot: hey where are we!?
Co-pilot: oh s**t we should have landed
(etc.)
Good question. The contact must have started after no descent occurred? The man did not look embarrassed, either -- COULD this have been any kind of health issue or something?
Now now, there are a lot of men at that job now. Don't be insensitive... ;)
Actually it was a flight attendant who finally got a response out of the cockpit. Since they say the plane was never in jeopardy, I wonder if it was a health issue?
You'd think, right? But look at the video. The pilot seems so strong and solid and positive, not at all embarrassed. I think something unforeseeable might have occurred and they said the arguing thing to the passengers off the top of their heads.
Classic.
Maybe they found the balloon boy in there.
Co-Pilot? Damn, that guy looks old.
These characters should never fly again.
>>>What the heck was it, then? A gay quickie?
I’d guess something along the lines that they inputted a 9 instead of a 7 and the autopilot flew them where it was told to go, instead of where they wanted to go. Then compounding the negligence by trusting the instruments and not double checking their position.
Remember, they missed their initial and final descent into the airport. They cruised on over the city at 37,000 feet.
They were a third of the way across Wisconsin when they finally turned around.
Maybe they are gay.
What about all the calls over the radio, their cell phones, the on-board intercom, etc??
was a smoking hot stewardess involved?
It was a secret test to see what the FAA would do.
Some kind of hijack test by the TSA.
They wanted to get on a reality show.
Yup. I think they were joinging the mile high club for gays.
They overshot their destination by 150 miles, but they were out of radio contact for a lot longer than that. True, 150 miles at their speed is a short period of time, however it’s not the 150 miles that’s important but rather their loss of contact. And even if it were the 150 miles, you have to double that, and flying time, to get back to the destination.
This is going to be an interesting one!
Apparently, not answering for over an hour or about 600 miles of radio silence.
Apparently, they were silent for 600 miles even ignoring the company private line as well as other towers and other airplanes trying to reach them on different frequencies..
They are now called “Flight Attendants”.
They were “off course” far before their destination. I do not understand how they could have ignored all the communications they were getting.
The copilot said there was no way safety was affected but it does almost sound like an aborted terror attempt (or do I watch too much crime stuff), or maybe some kind of health emergency?
I know pilots do not get enough rest but the copilot interviewed really looked like a serious captain who would not just SLEEP on the plane. Then again, what do I know?
Could have been a single numerical error in the autopilot that could have set them way off course. Looks like a course correction was made over northern New Mexico, as seen from this FlightAware.com map.
Compare it to this flight track on 24-October-2009.
| How the hell can TWO company IPs overshoot their primary destination by 150 miles in an A320 when they likely had 3 VHF radios going, including one on company freq, ... ACARS spitting out messages, ... a full avionics suite with visual and aural annunciators, ... and pax fussing to the flight attendants, who are then calling up on the intercom, yapping as to why they haven't landed yet? Who was monitoring the fuel status? Who was monitoring the auto-pilot? Were they even in the seats? The cockpit ain't that big!
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lol. . .would explain at least, the thus far, 'don't ask/don't tell' response to the 'mystery'.
They were having sex.
Always, always order the lasagna.
The article is a bit confusing, but if so, that is bizarre. They must have been up to something VERY odd.
My guess is that they met with their lawyers.
Deny everything and demand proof .
Was this the pilot
Drunk Airline Pilot - Dean Martin & Foster Brooks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8L-ZZSc8JU&feature=fvw
Since it seems to be in the air this weekend, maybe they were temporarily abducted by space aliens.
Yikes, it’s smaller than I thought. What the hell happened?? Could there have been some kind of terrorism? Maybe it really was poisoned gases or poppies. ;)
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