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
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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.
Did they get fired?
31 posted on 06/26/2008 1:39:17 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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