Wayward NW pilots: “working on our laptops”

Northwest Airlines-NWA’s (subsidiary of Delta Air Lines) (Minneapolis/St. Paul) pilots have reportedly told the NTSB they got “distracted” and lost situational awareness and were checking out crew schedules on their laptops in the cockpit!

News link:

news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20091026/ap_tr_ge/

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Delta Air Lines has also issued the following statement:

finance.yahoo.com/news/Delta-Air-Lines-Issues-prnews-1760672370.html?x=0&.v=1