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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Northwest Airlines flight from San
Diego, California, overshot the Minneapolis, Minnesota, airport by
about 150 miles Wednesday evening, and federal investigators are
looking into whether the pilots had become distracted, as they claimed,
or perhaps fell asleep.
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Air traffic controllers lost radio communication with the Airbus A320,
carrying 147 passengers and an unknown number of crew, when it was
flying at 37,000 feet, according to the National Transportation Safety
Board.
There was no communication with the airplane for more
than an hour as it approached the airport, the board said. An FAA
spokesman said the agency was tracking the airplane on radar, so it
knew the aircraft's position during the period without radio contact.
The aircraft flew over its intended destination -- Minneapolis-St. Paul
International/Wold-Chamberlain Airport -- and continued northeast for
approximately 150 miles over the next 16 minutes. The airport's
controllers then re-established communication with crew members, who
said they had become distracted, the safety board said.
"The
crew stated they were in a heated discussion over airline policy and
they lost situational awareness," the board said in a news release.
A federal official, who asked not to be identified, told CNN that air
traffic controllers in the Denver area had communicated with the pilot,
but during a subsequent communication the pilots were "nonresponsive."
The plane was handed off to controllers in Minneapolis as a NORDO, the
designation for "no radio communications."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/10/22/airliner.fly.by/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
wow guys, wow. it really has been a weird year for aviation, A330 goes into the Atlantic, if im remembering right it was a 320 (maybe 737?) that went into the Hudson. Dash 8 crashes in Buffalo. this 320 goes WAY off course. And i know of atleast one other "incident" in which some pilots fucked up pretty badly and almost lost a Saab at Detroit.
Diego, California, overshot the Minneapolis, Minnesota, airport by
about 150 miles Wednesday evening, and federal investigators are
looking into whether the pilots had become distracted, as they claimed,
or perhaps fell asleep.
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Air traffic controllers lost radio communication with the Airbus A320,
carrying 147 passengers and an unknown number of crew, when it was
flying at 37,000 feet, according to the National Transportation Safety
Board.
There was no communication with the airplane for more
than an hour as it approached the airport, the board said. An FAA
spokesman said the agency was tracking the airplane on radar, so it
knew the aircraft's position during the period without radio contact.
The aircraft flew over its intended destination -- Minneapolis-St. Paul
International/Wold-Chamberlain Airport -- and continued northeast for
approximately 150 miles over the next 16 minutes. The airport's
controllers then re-established communication with crew members, who
said they had become distracted, the safety board said.
"The
crew stated they were in a heated discussion over airline policy and
they lost situational awareness," the board said in a news release.
A federal official, who asked not to be identified, told CNN that air
traffic controllers in the Denver area had communicated with the pilot,
but during a subsequent communication the pilots were "nonresponsive."
The plane was handed off to controllers in Minneapolis as a NORDO, the
designation for "no radio communications."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/10/22/airliner.fly.by/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
wow guys, wow. it really has been a weird year for aviation, A330 goes into the Atlantic, if im remembering right it was a 320 (maybe 737?) that went into the Hudson. Dash 8 crashes in Buffalo. this 320 goes WAY off course. And i know of atleast one other "incident" in which some pilots fucked up pretty badly and almost lost a Saab at Detroit.
