Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:

Whew! I swore to God I'd never fall asleep again while flying. I
broke my
promise twice before completing that flight.


I read many years ago about a corporate pilot who was repositioning a
plane (big twin) from Indiana to Illinois for a morning flight. He'd
been flying all day and was tired. He fell asleep enroute and woke up
just as the last engine died and the sun was coming up. He made a
successful deadstick on a dirt road. When a farmer came along in a
truck, he asked where he was. He was in New Mexico. I would have
loved to have been a fly on the wall when that guy called his boss and
told him the morning flight would be a little late :-))

Weren't there a couple of snoozing airline pilots on a red-eye that
overshot L.A. and were finally awakened well out over the Pacific? I
seem to recall reading about that one in the paper sometime in the 90s.


Tired pilots with autopilots can be a bad combo :-)

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)