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Pilots typing while flying: do you feel safe in the sky?
The revelation that two Northwest Airlines pilots where typing while flying has to make you wonder what else they are doing in the cockpit while you are snacking on your pretzels in third class.
The pilots - Richard Cole of Salem, Ore., the first officer, and Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., the captain - told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the Associated Press reported Monday.
Air traffic controllers in Denver and Minneapolis repeatedly tried to reach them and authorities became so alarmed that National Guard jets were readied for takeoff at two locations.
OOOPSIE!
It is almost enough to make one buy a bus ticket. What do you think?
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By Biff
October 27, 2009 4:17 PM | Link to this
Who cares what they’re doing in the cockpit? As long as it’s a SAFE flight and I arrive ON TIME, what’s the problem?
By jo
October 28, 2009 9:06 AM | Link to this
hey guy thats just it.if they are typing then instead of keeping watch on what they are suppose to then there is a good chance that you might not arrive at all.DUH