Co-pilot: No Sleeping or Arguing in Cockpit

CNN ^ | 10/24/09 | CNN

[Yaelle]

What the heck was it, then? A gay quickie? A subdued terrorist? Did they unplug the cockpit extension cord and the power went out? Poison gas? Poppies??

[Atlas Sneezed]

Honestly, 150 miles isn’t much more than a big loop to enter the pattern.

[Texas4ever]

Republican vs Democrat...maybe they were arguing about Obama politics....that would be interesting.

[Political Junkie Too]

My guess is that they were playing the license plate game, and the pilot still needed Alaska.

-PJ

[Yaelle]

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?

[Yaelle]

Maybe one of them was seeking one of the last of the 57 states.

[Cicero]

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.

[badgerlandjim]

A bad time to join the mile-high club, maybe?

[ThomasThomas]

steak or fish. ...

[Spunky]

Where were the stewardesses?

[cricket]

The 'quickie' came to mind; sans 'argument/sleep'; what the heck could they both have been occupied with. Bizarro to say the least. Did not catch the names or specifics; they 'are' both males, right?

[BIG_CARBON_FOOT_PRINT]

The passengers should demand 300 additional frequent flyer miles.

[BigSkyFreeper]

They won’t say because whatever it was, was probably embarrassing as hell.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I was in a holding pattern into Minneapolis once, and all you could see was Wisconsin farmland down below.

[ThomasThomas]

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?.

[jtal]

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.)

[Yaelle]

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.

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?

[Yaelle]

Where were the stewardesses?

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?

[Yaelle]

They won’t say because whatever it was, was probably embarrassing as hell.

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.

[Wierzbowski]

Classic.