Two Northwest Airlines pilots used laptop computers in the cockpit and didn’t pay attention to their duties as they flew past their Minneapolis destination last week, according to federal regulators and airline officials.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Monday that the two veteran pilots told investigators that they flew for 78 minutes without speaking to controllers because they became so engrossed in a new computer program that arranges pilot schedules.
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"Both (pilots) stated there was a distraction in the cockpit," the NTSB said in a statement. "The pilots said there was a concentrated period of discussion where they did not monitor the airplane or calls from (controllers)."
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