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Pilots Asleep in the Cockpit?
Fox KC ^
| Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008
Posted on 02/20/2008 7:26:35 PM PST by 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.
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Yikes!
To: Aeronaut
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posted on
02/20/2008 7:26:52 PM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: Straight Vermonter
Oh boy, they got some explaining to do........
To: Straight Vermonter
This is why autopilots were invented!
... Otto is around to help out a bit!
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posted on
02/20/2008 7:29:37 PM PST
by
C210N
(The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)
To: Straight Vermonter
That would be almost funny if the CVR recorded snoring.
5
posted on
02/20/2008 7:32:51 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(When you choose the lesser of two evils, you still have evil.)
To: C210N
My GPS has an alarm clock in its data base options.
6
posted on
02/20/2008 7:33:03 PM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(Say Cheese.)
To: C210N
They need to mandate alarm clocks in cockpits now........
7
posted on
02/20/2008 7:33:44 PM PST
by
Kimmers
To: Straight Vermonter; AnAmericanMother; Paleo Conservative; aculeus; Billthedrill
Hours of boredom &c but nodding off is damned bad form.
;-)
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posted on
02/20/2008 7:34:24 PM PST
by
dighton
To: Straight Vermonter
Changing their name to Go to Sleep Airlines
9
posted on
02/20/2008 7:34:43 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: Straight Vermonter
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”.
10
posted on
02/20/2008 7:36:44 PM PST
by
TommyDale
(Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
To: dighton
15 miles in a jet is the blink of an eye...
11
posted on
02/20/2008 7:38:11 PM PST
by
chadwimc
(Proud to be an infidel ! Allah fubar !!!)
To: Straight Vermonter; Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP
ROTFL
Bump
12
posted on
02/20/2008 7:38:50 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Straight Vermonter
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.
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posted on
02/20/2008 7:41:36 PM PST
by
The Sons of Liberty
(HRC: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
To: Straight Vermonter
The FAA will require an alarm clock in all cockpits.
To: C210N
Otto Pilot never sleeps.
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posted on
02/20/2008 7:42:08 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
To: chadwimc
not if they remained at altitude and never began their approach and overflew it by 15 miles. that would be a long time.
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posted on
02/20/2008 7:43:47 PM PST
by
thefactor
(the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
To: Straight Vermonter
So how long was the flight from one island to the other?
17
posted on
02/20/2008 7:43:59 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress - Mark Twain")
To: chadwimc
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.
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posted on
02/20/2008 7:45:07 PM PST
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(Mike Huckabee: If Gomer Pyle and Hugo Chavez had a love child this is who it would be.)
To: C210N
they still use pilots?
(ducks as pilots throw stuff)
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posted on
02/20/2008 7:46:15 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: doorgunner69; dighton; Straight Vermonter; AnAmericanMother; aculeus; Billthedrill
Lucy you've got some Splain'in to do!
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