The two Northwest airline pilot who overflew Minneapolis airport 21 October have put part of the blame on air traffic controllers, who were not following standard procedures, court documents show. The documents, filed 24 November, have just been made public. The two are appealing to the Federal Aviation Administration, which removed their pilots’ licenses. They were out of contact with radio control for 77 minutes but the many stories that have circulated about what they were doing have not been confirmed or clarified.
Posted by Ellen Wallace on 8 December 2009 at 8:00 |
permalink
This work by genevalunch.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
News story, GenevaLunch, 8 December 2009.
Filed under: World news
Tags: controllers, licenses, Northwest Airline, overflew, overshot, pilots, revoked
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
We are happy to have your comments,
which are approved before they appear: please remember to be courteous and brief.
We accept only comments directly related to an article. We do not accept comment
spam - messages sent to more than one site. We do not publish comments if the
e-mail address is not legitimate. Thank you!