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What Were The Northwest Pilots Really Doing?

Published: Monday, 16 Nov 2009 | 11:49 AM ET

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By: Jane Wells
CNBC Correspondent

From "Balloon Boy" hoaxes to beauty queens who make their own sex tapes, we are a nation of goofballs. So much funny business—like two experienced pilots who miss their destination and don't realize they're out of contact with controllers for over an hour...because they were trying to figure out the new scheduling program.

I had no idea that learning how to lock in days off could be so engrossing.

But maybe that's not all they were doing up there at 30,000 feet.

In a spoof of the '60s classic, "Leavin' on a Jet Plane," there is now a YouTube parody called "Tweetin' on a Jet Plane."

In the video, the captain of Northwest [NWA Loading... () ] flight 188 is doing everything BUT flying the plane. He's too busy playing with every personal electronics gadget one man can own, while singing, "So poke me and chat with me. I'm pirating a dvd."