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  by Jim Henderson 2 years ago

  It is interesting all the hullaboo about the 2 NW pilots. In the early 70's, I was working traffic late at night In Chicago when AA50 on J64? PWE,LMN,BDF,JOT,GSH?, FWA? was switch over to me. West of BDF I gave him the short cut, BDF, SBN, CRL on course. I tried 3 or for times, he never responded, so he went the long way. They made the turn at BDF to JOT, but at JOT he did not make the turn back east. I quickly pointed him out to SBN High and MKE High. SBN pointed him out to PMM and CLE. MKE high pointed him out to MSP. The last time I saw him he went off my scope NE bound into Canadian airspace. I guess they woke up sometime. I never heard of an accident. There was the UA that going west into SFO or maybe it was east into NY, they ended up out over the Pacific or the Atlantic. Actually both of these excurions happened, I just forget who the the carriers were. Then there was the Alaska International Air C130 that overflew BRW on into the Beaufort Sea or the flight from Cairo to Mombasa that kind of returned to Cairo when waypoint 9 arrive and the airplane turned around to go to 1 in the middle of one dark night in northeastern Africa. It is funny they are making such a deal of the MSP one when the above four or five I know of and I am sure that there are just as many as a bunch of others have experienced on know of.