10-27-2009, 04:25 AM
Mac-A-Matic wrote: IIRC - pilots don't do much actual "flying" nowadays anyway. Especially over vast expanses like the Pacific. They set the autopilot and kinda just oversee things.
If they really were on their laptops, I'm guessing they were Airbus pilots...
Correctomundo! Plus, the laptop story only augments the "heated discussion" one. I can easily see them having a heated discussion, pulling up data on the laptops, etc. Not saying that is the actually story, but currently there's no evidence to support any hypothesis we all may propose. And of all that I've heard, they're almost all equally plausible...therefore it's difficult to even apply Occam's razor to this one.