NW Flight 188

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NW Flight 188 There are a lot of things that can cause airline passengers to worry these days: delays; terror attacks; even drunken pilots, but who would have thought missing the airport would be added to the list? Overshooting the airport by hundreds of miles never seemed to be a problem until October, 2009 when NW flight 188 missed Minneapolis altogether, seemingly getting lost in the air for about 80 minutes. It seems that the pilots of NW flight 188 were so engaged in an argument amongst themselves that they did not take notice that the airport was in view. They travelled an additional 150 miles until they realized that they had missed their landing.

Want to know more about this fateful flight? Here are a few facts:

The Captain of NW flight 188 had more than 20,000 hours of flight time recorded at the time of the incident.
The flightâ€™s 1st Officer was a retired Sir Force Pilot
There were 144 passengers and five crew members aboard NW flight 188 on that fateful trip
Originating in San Diego, the plane was scheduled to land in Minneapolis

With no technical, mechanical or weather issues to deal with, one can only wonder why these two seemingly experienced pilots lost track of their location for so long with no radio communication for almost an hour and a half.