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Pilots of a Northwest plane that overshot Minneapolis were unaware that they had flown their Airbus A320 with 144 passenger more than 100 miles past their destination, that air traffic controllers and their airline's dispatchers had been struggling to reach them for more than an hour, or that the military was at that moment readying fighter jets for an intercept mission. The plane had been out of radio contact for 77 minutes as it flew across a broad swath of the country, raising national security concerns. Cheney and First Officer Richard Cole told investigators they had taken out their laptops and were absorbed in working on a complicated crew scheduling program that they were required to learn following Delta Air Lines' acquisition of Northwest a year earlier. Cole told investigators they became distracted as they "got deeper and deeper into it."
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