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Stephen T. Wilson: "Northwest 188, how do you read Minneapolis Center?"

"Northwest 188, how do you read Minneapolis Center?"

Radar history shows Northwest Flight 188 is normally cleared to descend from 37,000 feet about 135 miles out or half an hour before landing. This is fifteen minutes before Minneapolis Center would have the crew to contact Minneapolis Approach Control for landing.

Instead, on Wednesday, Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center was out of contact with Northwest Flight 188 for at least 250 miles as the flight passed Minneapolis 120 miles into central Wisconsin, still level at 37,000 before the pilots "came to".

Pictured here, the captain attested he was in a heated argument with the copilot over company policy: