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MINNEAPOLIS — The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot Minneapolis have blamed air-traffic controllers in part for the incident, saying controllers violated procedures.
Capt. Timothy Cheney, 54, of Gig Harbor, Wash., and First Officer Richard Cole, 54, of Salem, Ore., said in documents filed Nov. 24 with the National Transportation Safety Board that controllers didn’t follow rules and practices in the Federal Aviation Administration’s air-traffic control manual and didn’t coordinate effectively with Northwest dispatchers. The documents don’t offer any details on those violations.
