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Pilots who missed airport say they were using laptops
Oct 27th, 2009 - The Seattle Times
Any employee at a company that has gone through a merger knows how distracting it can be when the new owner imposes new rules. That distraction, not a nap, was what two...
Report: Pilots Were Distracted by Using Laptops in Cockpit
Oct 26th, 2009 - FOXNews
The Northwest Pilots who overshot a Minnesota runway by 150 miles last week told investigators they were using their personal laptops in the cockpit, a violation of company policy...Pilot who overshot airport denies crew nap, fight
Oct 25th, 2009 - USA Today
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The first officer of the Northwest Airlines jet that missed its destination by 150 miles says he and the captain were not sleeping or arguing in the cockpit but he wouldn't explain their lapse in response and the detour.
Surprisingly, cockpit naps aren't unusual, experts say
Oct 25th, 2009 - The Seattle Times
White-knuckle airline passengers shaken by news two Northwest Airlines pilots are under investigation for overshooting a Minneapolis airport after possibly nodding off won't want to hear this: Some pilots say cockpit catnaps happen.
No one was snoozing in cockpit, NWA pilot says
Oct 24th, 2009 - StarTribune
To most appearances, they seemed to be asleep. But judging from their schedule, they should have been wide awake. The two pilots at the helm of the Northwest Airlines...
Cockpit videos from YouTube:
5:54747 takeoff cockpit view
lufthansa 747-400 takeoff from frankfurt to san francisco a340.net 747
3:58Cockpit view of a jet landing into Tegucigalpa Honduras TGU
A Boeing 737 cockpit view of the approach and landing into the Tegucigalpa airport located in Honduras. Tegucigalpa (TGU) is considered by many to be one of the world's most dangerous airports due to; the steep approach required; elevation; short ...
10:40STS-121- Discovery in cockpit video
Great view of the flight deck aboard Discovery as it ascends into orbit.
5:17Boeing 737NG Cockpit Preparation
In this video you can observe a pretty complete Boeing 737NG cockpit preparation procedure before flight. Enjoy it!
Cockpit from WikiPedia:
A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. Most modern cockpits are enclosed, except on some small aircraft, and cockpits on large airliners are also physically separated from the cabin.
It is a place where from which flight is controlled on the ground and in the air.
Cockpit as a term for the pilot's compartment in an aircraft first appeared in 1914. From about 1935 cockpit also came to be used informally to refer to the driver's seat of a car, especially a high performance one, and this is official terminology in Formula One. The term is most likely related to the sailing term for the coxswain's station in a Royal Navy ship, and later the location of the ship's rudder controls.
The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the controls which enable the pilot to fly the aircraft. In most airliners, a door separates the cockpit from the passenger compartment. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, all major airlines fortified the cockpit against access by hijackers.
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