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That's the airport in the middle. The jet went right by.
Hearing that the Northwest pilots who flew 150 miles past Minneapolis last week say they were working on their laptops and got distracted doesn't sit well with one (and probably many more) of the 144 passengers who were on board.
David Albrecht, of St. Paul, recalled the split-second decisions that Capt. Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger had to make for the "Miracle on the Hudson" landing in January — although that US Airways crisis happened just after takeoff, not at cruising altitude.
"What if some horrific emergency had happened and they would have had seconds to react?" he said of Flight 188. "They wouldn't have been able to."
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