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Pilot on wayward plane: ‘Nobody was asleep’
Police say both men in cockpit passed breath tests, apologized after flight
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 12:00 a.m. ET, Sat., Oct . 24, 2009
WASHINGTON - One of the two pilots of a Northwest Airlines jetliner that overflew its destination by 150 miles denied Friday speculation that they were asleep at the controls.
"Nobody was asleep in the cockpit," Richard I. Cole, the first officer on the flight, told NBC station KGW-TV at his Salem, Ore., home on Friday.
"Things are being said that didn’t happen, but I can't go into details."
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Federal investigators are trying to determine what the crew of Flight 188 was doing at 37,000 feet as the airliner sped 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination and military jets scrambled to chase them.
A report released Friday said the pilots passed breathalyzer tests and were apologetic after Wednesday night's odyssey. They reportedly said they had been having a heated discussion about airline policy. But aviation safety experts and other pilots were frankly skeptical they could have become so consumed with shop talk that they forgot to land an airplane carrying 144 passengers.
Ok there are eight things that I can see would cause them to overshoot an airport by 150 miles like this. (1) They were asleep. (2) They had passed out due to a lack of sufficient oxygen in the plane. (3) They had turned down or off the radio's and were playing hand held video games. (4) They were doing drugs or drinking. (5) They were having sex with a flight attendant. (6) They were having sex with each other. (7) They were hijacked. (8) Mechanical failure. I wonder what they are being so secretive about and I don't buy the excuse that they got caught up in a conversation either.
Pilot on wayward plane: ‘Nobody was asleep’
Police say both men in cockpit passed breath tests, apologized after flight
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 12:00 a.m. ET, Sat., Oct . 24, 2009
WASHINGTON - One of the two pilots of a Northwest Airlines jetliner that overflew its destination by 150 miles denied Friday speculation that they were asleep at the controls.
"Nobody was asleep in the cockpit," Richard I. Cole, the first officer on the flight, told NBC station KGW-TV at his Salem, Ore., home on Friday.
"Things are being said that didn’t happen, but I can't go into details."
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Federal investigators are trying to determine what the crew of Flight 188 was doing at 37,000 feet as the airliner sped 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination and military jets scrambled to chase them.
A report released Friday said the pilots passed breathalyzer tests and were apologetic after Wednesday night's odyssey. They reportedly said they had been having a heated discussion about airline policy. But aviation safety experts and other pilots were frankly skeptical they could have become so consumed with shop talk that they forgot to land an airplane carrying 144 passengers.
Ok there are eight things that I can see would cause them to overshoot an airport by 150 miles like this. (1) They were asleep. (2) They had passed out due to a lack of sufficient oxygen in the plane. (3) They had turned down or off the radio's and were playing hand held video games. (4) They were doing drugs or drinking. (5) They were having sex with a flight attendant. (6) They were having sex with each other. (7) They were hijacked. (8) Mechanical failure. I wonder what they are being so secretive about and I don't buy the excuse that they got caught up in a conversation either.
