{"id":5592,"date":"2009-10-24T11:13:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2009-10-24T15:20:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T20:20:43","slug":"what-really-happened-up-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5592","title":{"rendered":"What Really Happened Up There?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now everyone has heard the sound bite from Flight 188&#8217;s First Officer Cole:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/65753587.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiacyKUUr\">The first officer of the Northwest Airlines jet that missed its destination by  150 miles says<\/a> there was no fight in the cockpit, neither he nor the captain had  fallen asleep and the passengers were never in any danger.<\/p>\n<p>But in an interview with The Associated Press two days after he and a  colleague blew past their destination as air traffic controlled tried  frantically to reach them, pilot Richard Cole would not say just what it was  that led to them to forget to land Flight 188.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So just what <em>was<\/em> it?<\/p>\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"http:\/\/poll.pollcode.com\/Cyx\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<table width=\"350\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" border=\"0\" style=\"background-color: #eeeeee; color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana'; font-size: 13px\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" colspan=\"2\" style=\"padding: 2px\"><strong>What Really Happened in the Cockpit of NWA Flight 188? <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" style=\"padding: 2px\">Pilot was drawing Vikings&#8217; plays on the nav screen like Madden; was inadvertently steering the plane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"2\" \/><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" style=\"padding: 2px\">They wanted to be national heroes like Sully; Accidentally chased Canada Geese into Wisconsin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"3\" \/><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" style=\"padding: 2px\">They were kissing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"4\" \/><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" style=\"padding: 2px\">The Crew were watching reruns of The Office on the cockpit DVD Player<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"5\" \/><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" style=\"padding: 2px\">They were <strong>Hope<\/strong>-ing the government would <strong>Change<\/strong> their flightpath<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"6\" \/><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" style=\"padding: 2px\">They were seeking political asylum in Green Bay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"answer\" value=\"7\" \/><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\" style=\"padding: 2px\">They are lying; grateful that the flight recorder only records the last 30 minutes; so no snoring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><center><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Vote\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<input type=\"submit\" name=\"view\" value=\"View\" \/><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"white\" align=\"right\" colspan=\"2\"><font size=\"1\" color=\"black\">pollcode.com <a href=\"http:\/\/pollcode.com\/\">free polls<\/a><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">If they <em>were <\/em>watching reruns of <em>The Office<\/em> on the cockpit DVD player and it was that episode where Jim tells Pam that he loves her but she can only be friends&#8230;and if the pilots <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> cry over that episode for <em>at least<\/em> 150 miles&#8230;then I wouldn&#8217;t want them in my cockpit anyway.<\/p>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now everyone has heard the sound bite from Flight 188&#8217;s First Officer Cole: The first officer of the Northwest Airlines jet that missed its destination by 150 miles says there was no fight in the cockpit, neither he nor the captain had fallen asleep and the passengers were never in any danger. 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