Wayward pilots were working on their laptops

Breitbart ^ | 10/26/2009 | JOAN LOWY

[Responsibility2nd]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Northwest Airlines pilots told federal investigators that they were going over scheduling using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles. National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement Monday that the pilots said in interviews that they were not fatigued and didn't fall asleep, as many aviation safety experts have said was likely. The board said the pilots told investigators the first officer was instructing the captain on monthly flight crew scheduling. The pilots were out of communication with air traffic controllers and their airline for over an hour and didn't realize their mistake until contacted by a flight attendant.

[Responsibility2nd]

I guess they didn't get the message to stow all electronic devices.

[Dr. Ursus]

Thanks for the explanation-You’re still fired!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

posting on DU?

[OldDeckHand]

What do you think, “Halo” or “Call of Duty V”?

[trumandogz]

I wonder what they could have been looking at on their laptops?

[thackney]

LOL at your comment.

[massgopguy]

Fantasy Football or Brokeback Airlines Mile High Club?

[uncitizen]

and if you don’t believe that one, then they were involved in a really heated game of battleship and lost all track of time.

[McGruff]

You Lie!

[a fool in paradise]

What did the tapes reveal?

[RichInOC]

That must have been some good porn.

[Kakaze]

26 plus years of flying......these guys are full of it, lord knows what the real reason is, we probably don’t want to know it.

[colorado tanker]

On their laptops, eh? I don’t suppose they were checking out some porn??? That’d be way more “distracting” than putting together a monthly work schedule. And would it really take an hour and a half to do that schedule?

[TankerKC]

This still doesn’t explaing them ignoring radio calls for over an hour...

[stainlessbanner]

[Political Junkie Too]

Microsoft Flight Simulator.

-PJ

[Dr. Ursus]

Debbie does Minneapolis and all towns 150 miles east!

[trumandogz]

I doubt it was that.

So, what else could it be?

What would two lonely men men be looking at on a computer in the middle of the night.

The material was somehow so “compelling” that they lost track of time?

What could it be?

[Dewey Revoltnow]

I suspect one’s shirt collar got stuck in the fly zipper of the other one.

[musicman]

"I wonder what they could have been looking at on their laptops?"

"... Brokeback Airlines Mile High Club?"