Go! Pilots May Have Taken a Nap Over Hawaii

[Matt Molnar]

Honolulu Advertiser, via USA Today:

FAA wants to know if go! pilots fell asleep (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-02-20-go-sleep_N.htm)

The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into whether two go! airlines pilots fell asleep during a flight from Honolulu to Hilo last Wednesday.

Go! Flight 1002 was headed for Hilo Airport around 10 a.m. but overshot the airport by 15 miles before returning to land safely. [Read more... (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-02-20-go-sleep_N.htm)]

[T-Bird76]

This is surprise? Mesa is well know for over working their pilots up to 16 hours a day with as little as 3 or 4 hours between trips.

[USAF Pilot 07]

It doesn't surprise me... I've heard quite a few stories about people falling asleep flying...

[hiss srq]

I am not suprised it is Mesa but the flight is blocked at about 20 minutes or so. I do not see where the time to fall asleep is in that time. You get it cleaned up in cruise/climb config and than it is time to start your way down again. I know Hawaiian airspace is not the biggest clusterfudge on the planet like our own local airspace but I am certain that the flight deck has to be pretty busy throgh from block out to block in on a stage length that short.

[moose135]

It doesn't surprise me... I've heard quite a few stories about people falling asleep flying...

We had a rule on my -135 crew - last guy awake has to wake up someone else :shock: