Northwest Pilots Overshoot Destination
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Chuck Rocker in News
There is a reason that pilots are paid so well. Its their specialized training, attention to detail and commitment to passenger safety. Hahahahahahahahaha, yeah right!
I’m sure by now you’ve heard about the two dolts at Northwest, Richard Cold and Timothy Cheney, that missed their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles. Well they have finally spoken up and provided federal investigators with a reasonable explanation…they were playing on their laptops. Oh dear god.
The pilots were out of communication with air traffic controllers and their airline for over an hour and weren’t even aware of the mistake until a flight attendant let them know.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? These are the guys hired to deliver us safely to our destinations! Were they playing Call of Duty and looking at porn? What possible reason could exist that both pilots were too preoccupied to realize they had flown completely past their destination and showed no signs of stopping until tapped on the shoulder by a friendly stewardess?
I don’t know about you but I’m thinking twice before I fly again. The great American road trip is starting to sound pretty good by comparison. Idiots.
“It’s inexcusable,” said former NTSB Chairman Jim Hall. “I feel sorry for the individuals involved, but this was certainly not an innocuous event — this was a significant breach of aviation safety and aviation security.”
I guess the current NTSB Chairman didn’t have anything to say…
You know it probably wasn't quite that simple… I strongly suspect it had something to do with the merger of Northwest and Delta. I would lay money on it that one pilot was from Northwest, and one was from Delta. Probably one of the pilots got screwed in senority through the merger and thought he should be the Captain. Because of that there would be some animosity in the cockpit. Communication would be almost non existance and attention to the task at hand would suffer to the point that one pilot would be just waiting for the other to screw up. Probably not real professional behaviour, but defintly human.
I wonder how close to the facts I am? I have nothing to do with either Delta, or Northwest, but did fly a B-737 for a company in Canada that went through a merger.