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I heard about that while I was in South Carolina this past weekend, that's insane, they had to be sleeping, how else do you miss TOD and not hear the warnings, let alone all of the panicked yelling that ATC was probably doingBrogs wrote:Fast asleep !!, they came up with some lame excuse they were having a severe argument about Company Policy, yeah right, they were knocking the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,s out .
There is no aural warning on the A320 when you are at TOD. Just a flashing DECEL alert above the FMA. What I find interesting is that the Airbus wont move past a hold on the last waypoint of the flight plan, so why did it continue on a selected heading. Oh to be a fly in that cockpit.chevol wrote:The entire storry sounds very bizarre, no radio... how could they miss the TOD alt reset warning ? Do we know the true storry ???
I was thinking the same thing. It's possible that this would endue a 91.3, 91.11, 91.123 and 91.135 infractions. Makes me wonder if they took care of the CVR in flight.1691 wrote:There is no aural warning on the A320 when you are at TOD. Just a flashing DECEL alert above the FMA. What I find interesting is that the Airbus wont move past a hold on the last waypoint of the flight plan, so why did it continue on a selected heading. Oh to be a fly in that cockpit.chevol wrote:The entire storry sounds very bizarre, no radio... how could they miss the TOD alt reset warning ? Do we know the true storry ???
There is also more to the story;Many aviation safety experts had said it was more plausible that the pilots had fallen asleep during the cruise phase of their flight last Wednesday night than that they had become so focused on a conversation that they lost awareness of their surroundings for such a lengthy period of time. Air traffic controllers in Denver and Minneapolis repeatedly tried without success to raise the pilots of the San Diego-to-Minneapolis flight by radio. Other pilots in the vicinity tried reaching the plane on other radio frequencies. Their airline tried contacting them using a radio text message that chimes.
http://news.aol.com/article/wayward-pil ... s%2F735575Authorities became so alarmed that National Guard jets were readied for takeoff at two locations and the White House Situation Room alerted senior White House officials, who monitored Northwest Flight 188 with its 144 passengers and five crew members as the Airbus A320 flew across a broad swath of the mid-continent completely out of contact with anyone on the ground.