Both Mesa GO! pilots fall asleep during flight

[topdawg]

GO! will try anything to get a little attention on the news

http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/4199/40/

 

[XPOO]

Isn't that the new "scenic" tour that go! is starting to operate?

 

[WalterSobchak]

How did they fit both of their plywood boards up there in the cockpit?

 

[WSurf]

When you make 14k flying on the island you need atleast 2 other jobs to stay alive.

 

[mesaserf]

Ah hell, not again...

 

[xjgearbtch]

crew brief: when I nap you better be awake when I wake up!

 

[say again]

On a positive note, at least they woke up!! That's about as positive as I can get with MESA.

 

[regionalcap]

How in the heck do both pilots fall asleep on a 40 minute flight at 9 am? Very odd.

 

[PositionandHold]

How in the heck do both pilots fall asleep on a 40 minute flight at 9 am? Very odd.

9AM flight, 8AM or so duty in maybe, 6-6:30AM wakeup? Maybe flew the night before and got back in th emiddle of the night. Who knows. It's not that surprising.

Would be more surprising if it happened at 3PM.

 

[WSurf]

How in the heck do both pilots fall asleep on a 40 minute flight at 9 am? Very odd.

Nothing odd about that. Depends on what their work day was before. All I say is Thank God For Strong a$$ coffee!!!!!!!!

 

[PBRstreetgang]

Jeesh,
Common guys, the Captain was getting his hair gel from his backpack and applying it, everyone knows that if you gel you cant put your headset back on right away, it messes up the doo! The F/O was on the Ipod, rocking to a Debbie Gibson jam.
There it is! Who needs the NTSB? F/I to the rescue!
PBR

 

[Headfake14]

maybe they had one helluva layover the night before

 

[Limeyflyer]

Jeesh,
Common guys, the Captain was getting his hair gel from his backpack and applying it, everyone knows that if you gel you cant put your headset back on right away, it messes up the doo! The F/O was on the Ipod, rocking to a Debbie Gibson jam.
There it is! Who needs the NTSB? F/I to the rescue!
PBR

I always get a laugh from the hair gel, backpack iPod posts!!! Good one

 

[MALSR]

If these guys would've read the "Captains that say I'm laid back thread" they would know that a good pre brief includes saying "if I wake up don't let me catch you sleeping." I guess that would require literacy though.

 

[Soverytired]

As the resident "Mesa apologist", I feel I must point out a few things:

• 15 nm off course in a jet traveling 6-7 miles a minute, while not exactly professional, isn't very far off course.
• 15 miles "out to sea" [GASP!] - - I think anyone who's flown in JFK, IAD, ATL, PHL, etc. would consider 15 miles an insanely short downwind. 15 miles "out to sea" is nothing . . . especially when your entire flight was just conducted . . . "Out to Sea".
• And they were "lost com" for 25 minutes? Again not professional, but it happens all the time; equipment, ATC failed-handoffs, crew dialing in the wrong freq, etc. Big deal.

No passenger in the back could possibly tell "there's something wrong with this flight path"; even if he did, wouldn't the prudent thing be to ask the flight attendant? This sentence is MORONIC . . . why would the press even include this, unless the flight path truly was unusual (LIKE, OH, INVERTED FLIGHT MAYBE?)

Like ALL aviation stories reported by the press, this story contains 1% fact and 99% twisted, "sexed-up" hyperbole and conjecture. I know MAG is the favorite whipping boy here . . . just remember, YOU could someday wake up and find YOUR flight in the newspaper being grossly mis-reported . . . .

Lost com and a bit of navigational carelessness most likely . . .

Asleep for a 9am flight? Hardly.

(However, I will plead the fifth on what I "heard" routinely happened on the 12am-2:30 am flights out of LAS when I was at MAG. Thank god, I surrendered by badge and my board a long time ago)