Reported by CNN this morning!!!!!

Here my questions:
Can you believe this?

Someone falling asleep flying? Sure, I can believe it. As someone once said,
"flying is long periods of sheer boredom punctuated by moments of sheer
terror".

I studied regulation back in college and don't remember any specific
regulation that said the hand must be at control at all time. Anybody can
point it out?

Hand? How about those eyelids getting in the way of a pilot's ability to
"see and avoid" as required by 91.113.

Why they really want to make us look bad?

"They" make "us" look bad?? How did that make you in particular look bad?

I'd say sleeping, drunk and disoriented pilots are all doing their fair
share of making us "look bad".

John Harlow wrote:

Someone falling asleep flying? Sure, I can believe it. As someone once said,
"flying is long periods of sheer boredom punctuated by moments of sheer
terror".

As far as I know, the original version of this comes from "Fate is the Hunter",
by Ernest Gann. He was referring to piloting commercial airliners in the late
thirties.

George Patterson
The optimist feels that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist is afraid that he's correct.
James Branch Cavel