{"id":5587,"date":"2009-10-22T18:55:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T23:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2009-10-22T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T01:52:27","slug":"were-they-text-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5587","title":{"rendered":"Were They Text Messaging?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/65619367.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU1yDEmP:QMDCinchO7DU\">A Northwest Airbus A320 flying from San Diego overshot its Twin Cities  destination<\/a> by about 150 miles on Wednesday, apparently when the crew became  distracted, the National Transportation Safety Board said today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>(Passengers aboard the airliner were unaware &#8211; having grown accustomed to flight delays.-JR)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, I&#8217;ve missed an exit before&#8230;what&#8217;s the big deal?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently they were <em>not<\/em> texting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Federal Administration (FAA) said the FBI and airport police interviewed  the crew, who said they &#8220;were in a heated discussion over airline policy and  they lost situational awareness.&#8221; The NTSB is scheduling an interview with the  crew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;you think they will pull <em>that<\/em> cockpit audio tape?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder are being sent to the NTSB  laboratory in Washington, D.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh yeah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Northwest Airbus A320 flying from San Diego overshot its Twin Cities destination by about 150 miles on Wednesday, apparently when the crew became distracted, the National Transportation Safety Board said today. (Passengers aboard the airliner were unaware &#8211; having grown accustomed to flight delays.-JR) Hey, I&#8217;ve missed an exit before&#8230;what&#8217;s the big deal? Apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}