How some people try to get ahead

So did you hear about the Northwest pilots that accidentally overshot their destination airport by 150 miles? Here's a little video on it:




Michael Roberts at the Westword News blog in Denver came up with a few ideas on what they might have been doing, but we know exactly what they were doing.

The culprit in this disaster by way of distraction: Parallel Kingdom.

The pilots gave the excuse that they were working on their laptop computers and thus loss track of time. "Laptop computer" is obviously code for smartphone, we believe one had an iPhone and the other had a G1. (Speaking of which, who's excited about the upcoming Droid release? We are!)

Anyway, so it is pretty clear that the pilots were simply trying to snatch up territory in anticipation of the upcoming release of the Age of Emergence.



This should come as no surprise, they have been doing this for years. Why do you think they always tell you to turn off your mobile devices during the flight? You probably thought it was to reduce interference with radio communications, but really it is so that the pilots are the only ones that can take advantage of the opportunity. Turns out, pilots are pretty competitive when it comes to PK.

This is not the first airline conspiracy theory, there are others, but we are going avoid them for now. They might be watching us...