Posted on May 12, 2011 in travel | Permalink | Comments (0)
A Northwest plane overshoots the airport by 150 miles and the pilots don't respond to air traffic controllers for a few hours. But they claim it was only a loss of "situational awareness." Neat!
Reported instances of two pilots falling asleep are rare. In August, the safety board concluded its investigation into a February 13, 2008, incident in which two pilots aboard a Go airlines flight fell asleep and traveled 26 miles beyond the destination of Hilo, Hawaii, before waking and contacting air traffic controllers.
via CNN.com
Posted on October 23, 2009 in travel | Permalink | Comments (4)
Christoph Rehage hiked across China (his original goal was to walk home to Germany) and kept a video diary of his progress. This is a great video of how he weathered the trip. Short summary: more hair.
via Very Short List
Posted on September 01, 2009 in random, travel | Permalink | Comments (0)
Posted on June 23, 2009 in travel | Permalink | Comments (0)
This is my (unedited) Dopplr journal of the week:
Hello Andrew.
There have been 12 things reported in your journal since Monday April 14th. 4 of your fellow travellers are going on trips that coincide with you and 1 fellow traveller shared their trips with you.
A full digest follows.
- Joi Ito added a trip to San Francisco in May. You will be home then.
- Joi Ito added a trip to San Francisco in April. You will be home then.
- David Jacobs added a trip to San Francisco in April. You will be home then.
- David Jacobs started a trip to San Francisco.
- Josh Kopelman finished a trip to San Francisco.
- Joi Ito started a trip to San Francisco.
- David Jacobs finished a trip to San Francisco.
- Anil Dash finished a trip to San Francisco.
- Tariq Krim added a trip to San Francisco in April. You will be home then.
- Tariq Krim started a trip to San Francisco.
- Andrew Paulson started a trip to San Francisco.
[etc]
Posted on April 20, 2008 in travel | Permalink | Comments (0)