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.)
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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.
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