Aviation & Space Law
FAA Revokes Licenses of NW Pilots Who Overflew Airport By 100 Miles
Posted Oct 27, 2009, 03:55 pm CST
By Martha Neil
Federal investigators declined to seize and review the laptop computers that two Northwest Airlines pilots now say they were so engrossed by that they forgot they were supposed to land at an airport that they overflew by some 150 miles last week.
But they have acted, on an emergency basis, to ground the two pilots. The Federal Aviation Authority today announced that the licenses of captain Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., and Richard Cole of Salem, Ore., have been revoked, reports the Washington Post.
Northwest earlier suspended the two from duty.
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