The FAA did the right thing today in suspending the flying licenses of the two idiot pilots who flew past their destination by over 100 miles, while not paying attention on the flight deck. Personally, I do not believe their lame excuse about what they were doing; e.g. messing with their laptops. Northwest Airlines needs to fire them and with the loss of their pilot's license, they need to spend the rest of their lives working somewhere mowing grass.
These two guys had tons of experience, and were supposedly very well qualified. This makes me wonder how many other similar people are in charge of us when we are at 37,000 feet, and flying on auto-pilot.
But then on the other hand airline pilot wise, we have the outstanding efforts of the U.S. Airways pilot and crew who landed their damaged plane safely in the Hudson River thus saving all lives.
So, I am thinking the two Northwest dumbos are an anomaly.
