Pilots travel extra 150 miles while in "heated discussion"

I think they were neither geographically, nor historically ready to land...

Some of the discussions here put me to sleep, too....


Now lets have 'em each write an essay on what they remember from the discussion.

Their "distracted" excuse ranks up there with "dog ate the homework". But I don't know what they were doing.

Once contact was re-established, Air Traffic control instructed them to make a series of un-necessary turns in order to confirm that they were not being hijacked and were actually in control of the aircraft.

The flight recorders have been confiscated. I find it hard to believe that a "heated discussion" could prevent pilots from responding to repeated radio hails.

It was a heated discussion with a passenger at the back of the plane.

Same sort of thing happened a couple of years ago to a Hawaii Air flight from Honolulu to Hilo, HI, a short hop from one island to another. They went right past their destination and seemed to be headed for California across the East Pacific before someone realized what was going on. Forget what the excuse or explanation was on that one.

I've done that driving my car - kinda go past the exit as I am singing and/or daydreaming. Is that possible to happen when you're flying an aircraft?

Or could it be a route they don't usually take - like they usually fly all the way to Calif. and forgot they were going elsewhere. Although with the air traffic controllers calling in - seems odd they wouldn't have corrected sooner.

Maybe they were having a sexual fling in the cockpit.

Yes, I bet they were gaying it up. Mile high clubbin' it.

The plane is designed to fly itself, not do your jobs!

Maybe it was ican trying to explain his idea of theft.

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I don't get the purpose of lying...they HAD to know that the flight recorders would be checked, if they lie there is a 100% chance that they will be found out.

Could their explanation possibly be the truth?

They probably both were sleeping.

I wonder what the people on the plane thought!

Cycloptichorn

I saw that.

I do figure pilot fatigue is a problem, whether or not it was going on in this particular case.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/24/us/AP-US-Northwest-Airport-Overflown.html?_r=1&hp

OK, now I get it...