Two Northwest Airlines pilots missed their destination by by not one or two but 150 miles. They obviously weren't paying attention to their instruments or air traffic controllers. They were supposed to have landed at Minneapolis They claimed that they got into heated debate about airline policies but others sources speculate that they might have fallen asleep or that they engaged in prohibited activity in the cockpit i.e. using laptop computers. Although this might seem like a trivial matter, it isn't. Procedures are mean to be followed and they are put in place for a reason. According to CNN Charlie Bray, who retired in 2004 after 25 years of flying planes for Delta Air Lines, said that "You can't read a novel, but you could read a manual about procedures or about the airplane.You can't read a newspaper. You can't use a laptop. That's strictly prohibited". The air bus was flying from San Diego to Minneapolis, what if they had run out of fuel or because they weren't communicating with air traffic control, what if they had collided with another plan? According to the Associated Press they ended up in Wisconsin and only when they realized where they were did they contact Air traffic control. They finally turned the plane around and as a result of their careless mistake the flight was over an hour late.

I don't know about you but as if having to pay a ton of money to get on a flight wasn't enough, I have to put up with horrible service, overly zealous security procedures, missing a connecting flight completely and  I must now worry about landing in a different airport. So how long is 150 miles? Apparently it's a long enough distance for the two pilots you lose their licenses.