Pilots Asleep in the Cockpit?

Fox KC ^ | Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008

[Straight Vermonter]

The FAA wants to know if two pilots were sleeping (video: MyFoxPhoenix) while behind the controls of a "Go Airline" flight recently.

Investigators say the pilots flew past an airport by 15 miles before anyone could get a hold of them.

[Straight Vermonter]

Yikes!

[Straight Vermonter]

Ping

[doorgunner69]

Oh boy, they got some explaining to do........

[C210N]

This is why autopilots were invented!

... Otto is around to help out a bit!

[ElkGroveDan]

That would be almost funny if the CVR recorded snoring.

[U S Army EOD]

My GPS has an alarm clock in its data base options.

[Kimmers]

They need to mandate alarm clocks in cockpits now........

[dighton]

Hours of boredom &c — but nodding off is damned bad form.

;-)

[Kirkwood]

Changing their name to Go to Sleep Airlines

[TommyDale]

Dave Barry wrote a column years ago about this very subject.
If I recall correctly, his flight had overflown San Francisco over the Farillon Islands. After the flight, he rode in the same shuttle bus with the crew, and they were talking about it and wondering if anyone would find out. It was quite amusing, unless you were on the flight. I think the column was titled something like “Things You Don’t Want To Know”.

[chadwimc]

15 miles in a jet is the blink of an eye...

[Fiddlstix]

ROTFL
Bump

[The Sons of Liberty]

Back in the 80s I was on a cargo flight with US Air as a passenger. Since it was a cargo flight there were no passenger seats. I rode in the cockpit in jumpseat behind the pilot. We took off around midnight landed at the hub in Columbus, OH and took on more cargo, and left for the West coast. Somewhere over the Rockies I awoke to find the pilot, co-pilot and flight engineer all passed out. I kicked the pilots seat and, much to his displeasure, woke him up and asked if someone besides the auotpilot should be awake.

I'm afraid pilots asleep at the controls happens a lot more than we know.

[kittymyrib]

The FAA will require an alarm clock in all cockpits.

[KarlInOhio]

Otto Pilot never sleeps.

[thefactor]

not if they remained at altitude and never began their approach and overflew it by 15 miles. that would be a long time.

[SkyDancer]

So how long was the flight from one island to the other?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

They were only flying from Honolulu to Hilo on the big island of Hawaii, a distance of 214 miles. These guys must have been really sleepy.

[longtermmemmory]

they still use pilots?

(ducks as pilots throw stuff)

[Paleo Conservative]

Lucy you've got some Splain'in to do!