After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, Ed Rasimus
confessed the following:

Gotta say that reflects a total breakdown in situational awareness.

That pretty much sums up the FAA and NWA's conclusion.

Calling them "kinda tumbleweed" is an understatement.

Hey I was being nice calling the SO tumbleweed...she was totally out
of the loop. The FO was very assertive, this guy had been demoted to
FO because of a bunch of **** he pulled as a CA. Things like adding
"Lifeguard" to the callsign going to LAS because a passenger (during
boarding) mentioned his wife was going into labor in LAS.

The somewhat humourous aspect of the Brussels event...the moving map
display in the cabin showed their location to the passengers. So they
knew they were in Brussels even if the crew didn't until after
landing.

This current episode at Rapid City/Ellsworth has me stumped. I had
assumed this was a DC-9 incident at first blush.

The 757 software has the ability to display all airports with at least
a 5000' runway. I'd imagine the A-320 can as well, so unless they had
a "map shift" due to a faulty ADIRU (think INS) I don't know how they
missed the airport with the magic ****.

I'm guessing that the CEO of NWA will want these two guys fired...he
wanted guys fired for leaving engines running at the gate (there more
to it than meets the eye, sorta).

Robey