Northwest Pilots

Fear Of Flying: Top Ten Most Mysterious Airplane Incidents

Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living


Glynnis MacNicol

The most recent addition to this list is last week's report of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 plane, which overshot its destination by 150 miles.

Northwest Pilots' Licenses Are Revoked By FAA

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneap...

Northwest Pilots Who Overshot Minneapolis Airport Say They Were Working On Laptops

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — Not sleeping, the pilots say. They were engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptop computers as their p...

Feds Interview Northwest Pilots Who Overshot Minneapolis Airport

AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home


MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Federal investigators interviewed the crew of the Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles on ...

Pilots Who Missed Airport By 150 Miles: We Weren't Sleeping

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.24.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — Were the pilots distracted? Catching up on their sleep? Federal investigators struggled to determine what the crew members of a Nor...