nwa188 transcripts

[captainv]

Interesting, totally plausible story.

Totally plausible? Seriously?

The FO dorks up a frequency, never gets a response, so he never calls back? They don't pay attention to the Center frequency and realize it's the wrong one? They're on laptops for 7 minutes, the CA eats, and yet they go another full hour without talking to anyone, bothering to look where they are, or to notice the ACARS message light come on 8 separate times?

Oh, but they had a 100-knot tailwind. Well gee, that clears up everything.

 

[INIT REF]

If I were the FAA I'd withold their certificates until they could demonstrate a frequency change without saying 'with you'.

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

This email, while prob has elements of the truth.... 12 minutes total on laptops?

It takes 5 minutes to start anything that says microsoft on it up.

I still think they were bitching on their laptops about the newly implemented delta PBS (which isn't half bad, just not what they were used to) and trying to show the other how to use it. That can easily eat up a bunch of time and take up much of one's attention span.

Plus 12 minutes.... 100 kts of tailwind.... thats like 100 miles. Thats not from denver to msp.

Behold embellishment of an email....