Airbus cockpit door striker1/13/2024 ![]() I still just can’t believe that for over an hour they failed to respond to any attempts at communication. Sounds like these guys are going to have to fight for their jobs. Using laptops or engaging in activity unrelated to the pilots’ command of the aircraft during flight is strictly against the airline’s flight deck policies and violations of that policy will result in termination. But could the new bidding system really have been so exciting to have kept them distracted for over an hour? It’s certainly going to be a complicated topic of discussion, but I find it unconscionable that they would simply forget that they were flying an airplane for that long.ĭelta put out a statement on personal laptop use that says: Delta says they don’t allow personal laptop use for pilots while flying, so naturally the mainstream media folks have jumped on this as the headline. That means that for over and hour, the pilots ignored radio calls and attempted contact from their company dispatcher because they were engrossed in this conversation about their new crew scheduling system.Īt one point, the pilots pulled out their laptops, apparently to review the new system. The pilots insist they weren’t arguing nor sleeping but rather having a heated discussion. Well, these pilots had ample experience, haven’t had any problems before, and weren’t fatigued after a 19 hour layover in San Diego. Air traffic control made them do some turns to prove they hadn’t been hijacked, and they ended up landing around 9p. They then started turning south and at 817p they started descending. There were a couple of slight course corrections but nothing else until 814p when they got back in touch with air traffic control, well past Minneapolis. ![]() The plane was at 37,000 feet traveling at a roughly 30 degree heading. That would have been about 20 minutes after they started talking to Denver Center (the air traffic control center that controls that patch of airspace). The last radio communication is said to have occurred around 656p Central Time. As far as I’m concerned, the excuses given by the pilots seem flimsy at best.Īt left, you can see what happened to flight 188 on October 21 thanks to FlightAware. Once pilots realized they had gone too far east, they turned around and landed. You know the story – Northwest 188 from San Diego to Minneapolis decided that Wisconsin was a better destination. Now that the NTSB has released its early findings, let’s talk. It has been plastered all over the news, but I wanted to wait a little until we had more information on what happened.
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