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MontrealMum
10-23-2009, 10:22 AM
Anyone hear about this? http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/10/23/airliner.fly.by/index.html Yikes!
alexsmommy
10-23-2009, 10:28 AM
Yes, saw the story during pregnancy insomnia last night. Their story is ridiculous - I'm guessing they had to be asleep and panicked when they woke up and realized just how badly they had messed up. Absolutely terrifying - hopefully this will prompt some reform for how many hours straight pilots are allowed to fly in a 24 hour period.
carolinamama
10-23-2009, 10:28 AM
Very very scary!
Cheburashka
10-23-2009, 10:38 AM
I saw this on the news this morning. They interviewed a passenger, who said that people had no idea anything was wrong until they landed and police boarded the plane. Very scary.
kayte
10-23-2009, 12:32 PM
Considering my DH is about to start flying at least twice a week--I find this pretty disturbing.
bubbaray
10-23-2009, 12:35 PM
They are extremely lucky some fighter jet didn't blow them out of the sky.
gatorsmom
10-23-2009, 12:42 PM
It sounds like they are lucky that another plane remembered another frequency they were using and could get a response using the other frequency. Otherwise, if they'd not been able to contact them, how much further would they have continued flying?! Scary.
Laurel
10-23-2009, 01:40 PM
Scary. It seems like it would be a good idea for flight attendants to do regular, mandatory checks on the cockpit, no?