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  1. 02-20-2008, 01:27 PM #1
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    Go! Pilots May Have Taken a Nap Over Hawaii

    Honolulu Advertiser, via USA Today:
    FAA wants to know if go! pilots fell asleep

    The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into whether two go! airlines pilots fell asleep during a flight from Honolulu to Hilo last Wednesday.

    Go! Flight 1002 was headed for Hilo Airport around 10 a.m. but overshot the airport by 15 miles before returning to land safely. [Read more...]
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
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  2. 02-20-2008, 06:56 PM #2
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    Re: Go! Pilots May Have Taken a Nap Over Hawaii

    This is surprise? Mesa is well know for over working their pilots up to 16 hours a day with as little as 3 or 4 hours between trips.
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  3. 02-20-2008, 07:57 PM #3
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    Re: Go! Pilots May Have Taken a Nap Over Hawaii

    It doesn't surprise me... I've heard quite a few stories about people falling asleep flying...
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    Re: Go! Pilots May Have Taken a Nap Over Hawaii

    I am not suprised it is Mesa but the flight is blocked at about 20 minutes or so. I do not see where the time to fall asleep is in that time. You get it cleaned up in cruise/climb config and than it is time to start your way down again. I know Hawaiian airspace is not the biggest clusterfudge on the planet like our own local airspace but I am certain that the flight deck has to be pretty busy throgh from block out to block in on a stage length that short.
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  5. 02-21-2008, 12:39 AM #5
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    Re: Go! Pilots May Have Taken a Nap Over Hawaii

    Quote Originally Posted by USAF Pilot 07
    It doesn't surprise me... I've heard quite a few stories about people falling asleep flying...
    We had a rule on my -135 crew - last guy awake has to wake up someone else :shock:
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