SEATTLE - Two pilots from the Pacific Northwest who overshot a Minnesota airport because they weren't paying attention will not fight to for their revoked licenses.
However, Captain Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash. and First Officer Richard Cole of Salem, Ore. can apply for new licenses Aug. 29. That's about 10 months after they flew an Airbus A320 with 144 passengers about 150 miles past Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. They did not respond to radio calls for over an hour.
Cheney and Cole have said they were distracted by looking at a new crew scheduling system on their laptops. Using laptops is a violation of Northwest Airlines' policies.
In order to fly commercial airplanes again, Cheney and Cole would reportedly have to start their training all over.
