Well, I for one am not buying it. Not was Kent said, but what the NWA pilots declared as the cause of their potentially deadly mistake. I just don't buy it. Unless they release the CVR stating otherwise.....But I know the CVR only gives the last 30 min.....and as a side note, I think that is the stupidest thing ever put into an aircraft. Are the engineers really that challenged they cannot come up with a system that can record the entire flight? Go to Office Depot and pick up a little digital recorder, they can record for 6 hrs.....The CVR would easily tell what really happened.....This sort of thing angers me very much. They could have developed some major issues with the plane and just slept right through it. It is inexcuseable and should not be tolerated. For a severe failure of control and management in the cockpit with however many lives on board I think it's borderline criminal. Had that plane gone down and your kids were on it.....does a silly license(s) revocation seem fitting? This sort of thing cannot happen...laptop / no laptop -- sleeping / not sleeping the net result is the same. The public entrust their lives and their families lives to an airline - a plane manu - a flight crew and it just is horific that no one was home for over an hour or so......IMO, this is worse than when the SWA pilot overran 08.

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