News Stories Regarding the Sleeping Pilots of Go! Flt 1002 (2/13/2008)
Feb 18, 2008, 9:24 pm
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News Stories Regarding the Sleeping Pilots of Go! Flt 1002 (2/13/2008)
KGMB9 Breaking News @ 6:00: (I just caught the last half of this developing story):
A go! inter-island flight overflew ITO by 15 miles today or yesterday before the pilots realized they were past their destination, and had to turn around and correct the mistake. It is thought they may have been asleep or otherwise distracted. An investigation will hopefully shed light on the unusual occurrence: unusual on such a short flight in daylight hours.
Maybe more at 10:00.
A go! inter-island flight overflew ITO by 15 miles today or yesterday before the pilots realized they were past their destination, and had to turn around and correct the mistake. It is thought they may have been asleep or otherwise distracted. An investigation will hopefully shed light on the unusual occurrence: unusual on such a short flight in daylight hours.
Maybe more at 10:00.
Feb 18, 2008, 9:41 pm
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KGMB9 Breaking News @ 6:00: (I just caught the last half of this developing story):
A go! inter-island flight overflew ITO by 15 miles today or yesterday before the pilots realized they were past their destination, and had to turn around and correct the mistake. It is thought they may have been asleep or otherwise distracted. An investigation will hopefully shed light on the unusual occurrence: unusual on such a short flight in daylight hours.
Maybe more at 10:00.
A go! inter-island flight overflew ITO by 15 miles today or yesterday before the pilots realized they were past their destination, and had to turn around and correct the mistake. It is thought they may have been asleep or otherwise distracted. An investigation will hopefully shed light on the unusual occurrence: unusual on such a short flight in daylight hours.
Maybe more at 10:00.
Feb 18, 2008, 10:59 pm
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KGMB reporting FAA investigating 2-13 Go! Flt 1002
Anyone else catch the KGMB report 6pm news - saying FAA is now investigating 2-13 Go! Flight 1002 HNL-ITO and that pilots have some explaining to do as ATC couldn't contact pilots for 20(?) long minutes; and, that the flight flew past Hilo before turning back to land....
With speculation from aviation "expert" Peter Forman.... the pilots might have fallen asleep? Or had some other trouble?
And a screenshot of the radar track of the flight (you have to look carefully to see that the track ends just south of Hilo)
See Flightaware Flight track
Most of the historical Flightaware tracks show Go #1002 flights making it only to Haleakala, Maui.... and nothing really unusual in the flight depart/arrival times - arrival = 9:54am.
However, Flightstats.com (registration & login required to get historical info) indicates the last estimated runway arrival time was 9:54am, but actual runway wheels down time was 10:12am......
With speculation from aviation "expert" Peter Forman.... the pilots might have fallen asleep? Or had some other trouble?
And a screenshot of the radar track of the flight (you have to look carefully to see that the track ends just south of Hilo)
See Flightaware Flight track
Most of the historical Flightaware tracks show Go #1002 flights making it only to Haleakala, Maui.... and nothing really unusual in the flight depart/arrival times - arrival = 9:54am.
However, Flightstats.com (registration & login required to get historical info) indicates the last estimated runway arrival time was 9:54am, but actual runway wheels down time was 10:12am......
Feb 19, 2008, 12:03 am
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Anyone else catch the KGMB report 6pm news - saying FAA is now investigating 2-13 Go! Flight 1002 HNL-ITO and that pilots have some explaining to do as ATC couldn't contact pilots for 20(?) long minutes; and, that the flight flew past Hilo before turning back to land....
With speculation from aviation "expert" Peter Forman.... the pilots might have fallen asleep? Or had some other trouble?
With speculation from aviation "expert" Peter Forman.... the pilots might have fallen asleep? Or had some other trouble?
Pretty unusual, to say the least. More at Channel 9 News at 10:00, I suspect.
I wonder if any pax were alerting the FA "Hey, you know we just blew past ITO? Wanna go knock on the hatch and wake 'em up in there?"
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Feb 19, 2008, 12:37 am
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Perhaps the pilots were busy discussing the self-made x rated video that was filmed on a go! flight?
Feb 19, 2008, 12:40 am
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I just assume they were making up for all the HNL-ITO flights that go! has canceled with no warning to the passengers.
Feb 19, 2008, 12:40 am
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This will be interesting.. frankly it would not surprise me on the mainland, at Mesa airlines, given some of their scheduling tactics (look up 'continuous duty overnight' some time); I am guessing, however, that due to the limited nature of go (and single time zone to deal with) they do not have such brutal schedules.
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This will be interesting.. frankly it would not surprise me on the mainland, at Mesa airlines, given some of their scheduling tactics (look up 'continuous duty overnight' some time); I am guessing, however, that due to the limited nature of go (and single time zone to deal with) they do not have such brutal schedules.
Feb 19, 2008, 11:04 am
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Here's the story from the KGMB9 website: http://kgmb9.com/main/content/view/4199/40/
And it's just been picked up by the Aero-News Network: http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?C...c-fb153946086f
And it's just been picked up by the Aero-News Network: http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?C...c-fb153946086f
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Feb 20, 2008, 12:41 am
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There's nothing wrong with switching on the autopilot and taking a 20-25 minute nap... well, unless you do so 10 minutes into a 30-minute flight. 
I wonder what the FA(s) thought, or said. "Ladies and gentlemen, on our right, you'll see the Hilo airport, where we should be landing right now."
I wonder what the FA(s) thought, or said. "Ladies and gentlemen, on our right, you'll see the Hilo airport, where we should be landing right now."
Feb 20, 2008, 10:27 am
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There's nothing wrong with switching on the autopilot and taking a 20-25 minute nap... well, unless you do so 10 minutes into a 30-minute flight.
I wonder what the FA(s) thought, or said. "Ladies and gentlemen, on our right, you'll see the Hilo airport, where we should be landing right now."
I wonder what the FA(s) thought, or said. "Ladies and gentlemen, on our right, you'll see the Hilo airport, where we should be landing right now."
Feb 20, 2008, 9:35 pm
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This Mesa/go! incident has been getting the attention of all the national news networks throughout today.
Wonder if the recorders will have anything pertinent on it---if they haven't pulled them out until now, the entire incident/timeline in question might have been recorded over, but I'm not so sure about that.
Wonder if the recorders will have anything pertinent on it---if they haven't pulled them out until now, the entire incident/timeline in question might have been recorded over, but I'm not so sure about that.
Feb 21, 2008, 12:48 am
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This Mesa/go! incident has been getting the attention of all the national news networks throughout today.
Wonder if the recorders will have anything pertinent on it---if they haven't pulled them out until now, the entire incident/timeline in question might have been recorded over, but I'm not so sure about that.
Wonder if the recorders will have anything pertinent on it---if they haven't pulled them out until now, the entire incident/timeline in question might have been recorded over, but I'm not so sure about that.
Pinnacle 3701 (CRJ-200) only had 30 minutes of CVR recordings on it if my quick research is correct.