Airport Overshoot Prompts Investigation

A variety of groups have come together recently to try to do something about the fact that many pilots and flight attendants are worked so hard that they hardly have enough time to sleep, resulting in poorer job performance. This problem came to a head on Wednesday night when a Northwest Airlines flight ended up overshooting the airport by 150 miles because of the possibility that the pilot nodded off.
Air traffic controllers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport lost contact with the Airbus A320 for more than an hour, the time period in which it is suspected that the pilot …read more