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Originally posted by Reheat
Take a look at where the aircraft was and where it was headed. It was a danger to what? A cheese processing plant in Eau Claire, WI? No? Maybe a dairy farm in the area? It was also at night. Do you speculate that potential hijackers had night vision equipment in order to see the largest cow on that dairy farm?
Originally posted by Rewey
Originally posted by Reheat
Take a look at where the aircraft was and where it was headed. It was a danger to what? A cheese processing plant in Eau Claire, WI? No? Maybe a dairy farm in the area? It was also at night. Do you speculate that potential hijackers had night vision equipment in order to see the largest cow on that dairy farm?
Originally posted by Rewey
Although I'm certainly not disagreeing with the argument you raise in this particular post, this comment bothers me a little...
Forget where they're heading... Do the people on board the plane not count?
Originally posted by Rewey
Also, what if the 'hijackers' learn how to turn? Apparently on 9/11 they knew how to do that quite well. Do you think the intercepting pilots would be sitting on the ground thinking "they're OK now, but if they turn... THEN we'll launch..."
Originally posted by Rewey
I think the reason this was posted on ATS was to highlight that maybe in this case, it would have been more prudent to at least have someone in the air just in case...
Originally posted by Marrr
Just my two cents...They were either 1. Asleep 2. Drunk 3. Having Sex
Originally posted by Reheat
reply to post by thedman
I'll add one more point. There is no freakin' way that could happen with even one of those guys awake! One of the first and most important things a pilot learns from the beginning is division of attention. They were quiet obviously not monitoring anything. They were asleep.
Originally posted by Rewey
I've just heard reported this morning that the pilots and the airline have 'confirmed' that they were not arguing OR asleep, but wouldn't confirm why they'd missed or ignored the 13-or-so attempts to contact them...
I've just heard this morning that the airline is claiming the pilots were using their laptops to check scheduling details for their future flights.
That sounds a bit suss, doesn't it? Missed it by an hour? Missed 13 or so attempts to contact them?
Um, yeah... They were so engrossed in crew scheduling procedures that, despite repeated attempts to contact them, they overflew their destination by 100 miles...
Originally posted by Stillresearchn911
BTW, is it really true that the cockpit doors are impossible to get into now?
Originally posted by wdkirk
Staying on the radar and flying straight so all the radars can see you isn't exactly motive to launch fighters to intercept. It doesn't seem condusive to a highjacking either.
What do you mean it didn't deviate from the course? It overflew Minneapolis by 150 miles! I've been trying to imagine what the passengers were thinking. Seeing the city in the distance, getting ready for descent and landing and....just continuing on. Maybe they were too high to see the city, but they knew how much time had passed.
The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that it had revoked the licenses of the pilots of Northwest flight 188 — Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., the captain, and Richard Cole of Salem, Ore., the first officer.