Northwest Airlines

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Federal regulators have revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew past their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles last week.

The two pilots of a Northwest Airlines plane that overshot its Minneapolis destination say they were so engrossed in their laptops that they lost track of time and place for more than an hour.

Two Northwest Airlines pilots told federal investigators that they were going over schedules on their laptops, in violation of company policy, while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the National Transportation Safety...

St. Paul, Minn. — The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that its air traffic controllers should have contacted air defense officials much sooner in the case of a Northwest Airlines jet last month that flew past its destination.

The Northwest Airlines Flight 188 debacle gave us the opportunity to examine whether the communications between the air defense officials and air traffic controllers have improved much since 9/11. They haven't. What about on the ground?

Fox News is reporting that Flight 188 -- the Northwest Airlines flight that overshot its Minneapolis destination a few weeks ago --.

Washington (AP) — The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles are appealing the revocation of their licenses to fly.