On 28 Oct, 21:48, 150flivver wrote:

This crew willfully endangered the lives of passengers by violating

Willfully doesn't = negligently, and negligence was what seemingly
happened. Willful actions are way more serious and should necessarily
have an element of intention. In this case, the sods weren't even
aware that they'd overflown the destination until a stewardess jogged
them.


company policy and Federal regulations. *Flying in Class A airspace
without a clearance and without radio contact with the controllers
endangers not only the one airplane but every airplane that that one
airplane might collide with.


You must be joking! Since every transponder-equipped aircraft today
has TCAS, there'd have to be two pairs of previously dead pilots + a
stroke of awful luck for a midair collision to occur. After the advent
of TCAS, midairs are only a possibility in and around airports where
transponders are to be turned off


Emergency revocation of their tickets was hardly overkill.

Concur.

Ramapriya