Pilots were working on laptops when plane overflew Minneapolis destination

So they were either fast asleep or on Facebook

So they were either fast asleep or on Facebook

What are they? College students?

Doom can be so captivating . . . or maybe they were playing simflight pretending to be pilots.

Richard Cole, the first officer, and Timothy Cheney, the captain

Hmmm, Dick and Cheney. Speaking of doom...

I take it they think that sounds better than "sleeping"?

Maybe they had some disco music going really loud out of one of the laptops, so due to that they were not able to hear the chimes, bells and whistles of the world trying to contact them. Two losers. Fire them now.

Well, it'll be easy enough to check out their latest alibi.

If it proves to be false, they were asleep.

Or will they then make up something else? Let's see, 'I weren't asleep guv, I was just playing a pocket billiards challenge against the first officer.' You know, first past the post gets to pay for the porn flick we were planning to watch on the next flight.'

Or maybe, 'We were having an intellectual discussion on the concept of life, the universe, and everything.' Nah. Been done already.

Perhaps 'Sorry sir, the dog ate my homework.' Whoops, wrong subject.

Better leave it to them, seems they've got more practice in such lame excuses than me.

"Two pilots have told U.S. investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers" - What they meant to say was "we were watching porn and got distracted"

I can't believe it! I wonder if all pilots are doing something similar while flying.

Surfing porn, eh? Guess that brings a new meaning to "I have the stick."

Captain Obvious here. They were going over schedules. Which is against FAA regulations, but far more plausible than being asleep or surfing for porn using the airplane connection.