MSP-bound airplane goes silent, overshoots airport

"And if you look to your left, you can see Wausau, Wiscon-- aw, shit."

 

Ding, Ding. I say pilots were with attendants joining the mile high club.

 

the flight path looks like the map of africa in one of those abbott and costello movies that shows where they've been.

 

It's only a 30 minute loop. Since they flew for over 30 minutes after they "woke up", the time they were out of radio contact has been recorded over.

I'll bet anything they were both asleep. I worked at a major airline & it's common knowledge that one of the two pilots will often nap.

Looks to me like they both fell asleep.

 

Looks like this guy picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

 

Once, on a trip north from Alabama to Michigan, a friend and I were so passionately arguing baseball neither of us remember hour(s) of the trip. What we do remember looking up and noticing we were in downtown Louisville.

Neither of us know how we got there. How we missed exit (maybe exits) we were supposed to take or even the ones we did take. We just knew we were smack dab in the middle of the city and had no idea how to get out.

 

I don't believe I woulda told that...

 

That's outstanding.

 

Update:

http://www.startribune.com/local/65778012.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4OW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUycaEacyU

 

I once was driving on the interstate from an interview thinking of how I would write the story and realized I was 5 miles past my exit.

 

That pilot work week is comparable to the mythical 40-hour week for an in-season sports writer. It's nice for your pay stub and all, but it has nothing to do with reality.