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Plane overshoots Mumbai as both pilots go to sleep
Times of India ^
| 6/26/08
Posted on 06/26/2008 11:16:08 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
This wouldn’t happen if they just allowed gays to get married............
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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..........)
To: LibWhacker
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.
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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.)
To: LibWhacker
This would have been a good opportunity for the old placing their hand in a pail of warm water joke .
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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)
To: LibWhacker
, the plane was about half way to Goa.
“You can’t land here! Goa round.”
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posted on
06/26/2008 11:24:23 AM PDT
by
saganite
To: LibWhacker
Might have been bitten by an errant tse-tse fly causing sleeping sickness.
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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.)
To: LibWhacker
These are the types of cheap flights Bill Shatner gets you on via PriceLine.com
To: LibWhacker
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.
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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!)
To: LibWhacker
Air India needs to stock up on this:
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posted on
06/26/2008 11:30:51 AM PDT
by
Cecily
To: LibWhacker
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.
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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.)
To: TommyDale
There’s an airport on the Farallons? Never knew that.
To: Publius6961
Maybe pilot seats need a joy buzzer for these situations!
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posted on
06/26/2008 11:49:43 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
(( commander of the simian host))
To: LibWhacker
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.
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posted on
06/26/2008 11:52:51 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: LibWhacker
What happened to Bombay? What? Reminds everyone of the Empire? Mumbai sounds pussified.
To: Dr. Ursus
To: muleskinner
I don’t get it either. It’s not like we go around calling Japan “Nippon” or Vienna “Wien”....
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posted on
06/26/2008 12:10:01 PM PDT
by
Eepsy
(12-26-2008 +1)
To: Verginius Rufus
"Theres an airport on the Farallons? Never knew that." No, but they were over the Farallons before they realized they had over shot SFO. One of the passengers happened to be Dave Barry. He later wrote a column about it called "Things You Don't Want to Know".
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posted on
06/26/2008 12:10:46 PM PDT
by
TommyDale
(I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
To: LibWhacker
On the bright side, the passengers got a lot of extra frequent flyer miles.
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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".)
To: Red Badger
LOL! Is attempted hijacking of a topic about planes the same as attempted hihacking of a plane?
-PJ
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posted on
06/26/2008 12:15:55 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Repeal the 17th amendment -- it's the "Fairness Doctrine" for Congress!)
To: LibWhacker
...the plane was about half way to Goa.
WHOA!
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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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