The should be fired... NOW! No explanation short of MASSIVE equipment failure is sufficient for me...
Yep, pull this crap in military aviation and you’re liable to end up a high-profile prisoner in some unfriendly place, if not a permanent part of its landscape.
I know that they put planes on automatic pilot, but, we still need actual human beings monitoring things, don’t we?
And I thought take off and landing were the toughest part of flying; the times when pilots need to devote their undivided attention to air traffic control instructions and getting into position and all that.
There may be more to the story, but, it hardly sets my mind at ease that they flew way past their target, and were out of communication with air traffic control, so they could be on a laptop checking schedules.