Daquan13
October 28th, 2009, 07:20 AM
http://www.foxnews.com (U.S. section)
The two pilots who were involved in the mishap with their Delta/Northwest flight have had their licenses to fly revoked by the FAA.
Flight 188 last week which was operated by an Airbus A-320 narrowbody, was supposed to land in Minniapolis, but instead, it had stayed in the air too long and missed the city with the craft ending up somewhere over Euclaire, Wisconsin. It was also finally learned that the 1 hour that was suppsed to have been missed, was actually 90 minutes!
Allegedly during that time, no trasmission was received by the ATC's or Ground Control. The pilots seem to have lost all concentration on what the plane was doing. The two claim that they were using the laptop pc to check Delta's flight schedule. They knew full well ahead of time that the use of personal electronic equipment in the cockpit is against company policy rules and regulations.
The jetliner then had to make a U-turn, go back and desend into Minniapolis. Earlier reports had said that the pilots were arguing, then it said that they were asleep at the controls, possibly having suffered from sleep apnea. The FAA is responding to this as a blatent disreguard for the welfare and safety of the passengers and crew, as well as the safe operation of the aircraft that they were flying.
One of the flight attendants had called up to the cockpit to make the pilots aware of their mistake. The FAA took away their licenses and Delta/Northwaest says that they will also more than likely will ultimately lose their jobs.
This mishap comes on the heels of what has been going on with regular car drivers on the ground and those operating buses, trains, special needs vans and trolleys while using their cell phones. Transportation agencies - mainly the MBTA in Boston, in light of a subway mishap in May, have stepped up their policies against the use of cell phones while on the Job.
The NTSB says also, that sleep apnea might have played a role in the mishap, just as it did in late May, '08 when an MBTA driver is said to have fallen asleep behind the controls of a trolley in Newton that she was operating before it slammed into the rear of another trolley on the same track that had briefly stopped and began to slowly move before it was hit from behind. The driver Terese Edmonds, 24, was killed in the tragic crash.
The two pilots who were involved in the mishap with their Delta/Northwest flight have had their licenses to fly revoked by the FAA.
Flight 188 last week which was operated by an Airbus A-320 narrowbody, was supposed to land in Minniapolis, but instead, it had stayed in the air too long and missed the city with the craft ending up somewhere over Euclaire, Wisconsin. It was also finally learned that the 1 hour that was suppsed to have been missed, was actually 90 minutes!
Allegedly during that time, no trasmission was received by the ATC's or Ground Control. The pilots seem to have lost all concentration on what the plane was doing. The two claim that they were using the laptop pc to check Delta's flight schedule. They knew full well ahead of time that the use of personal electronic equipment in the cockpit is against company policy rules and regulations.
The jetliner then had to make a U-turn, go back and desend into Minniapolis. Earlier reports had said that the pilots were arguing, then it said that they were asleep at the controls, possibly having suffered from sleep apnea. The FAA is responding to this as a blatent disreguard for the welfare and safety of the passengers and crew, as well as the safe operation of the aircraft that they were flying.
One of the flight attendants had called up to the cockpit to make the pilots aware of their mistake. The FAA took away their licenses and Delta/Northwaest says that they will also more than likely will ultimately lose their jobs.
This mishap comes on the heels of what has been going on with regular car drivers on the ground and those operating buses, trains, special needs vans and trolleys while using their cell phones. Transportation agencies - mainly the MBTA in Boston, in light of a subway mishap in May, have stepped up their policies against the use of cell phones while on the Job.
The NTSB says also, that sleep apnea might have played a role in the mishap, just as it did in late May, '08 when an MBTA driver is said to have fallen asleep behind the controls of a trolley in Newton that she was operating before it slammed into the rear of another trolley on the same track that had briefly stopped and began to slowly move before it was hit from behind. The driver Terese Edmonds, 24, was killed in the tragic crash.