The disappearance of Flight 188.  Science, technology, and life.
Dec. 17 2009 7:52 AM  Flying Blind  The disappearance of Flight
188.  You've heard of planes that vanished into thin air? Here's
a truer, scarier story: On Oct. 21, 2009, two pilots flying from
San Diego to Minneapolis vanished into cyberspace.  Their plane
was fine. Ground controllers tracked it the whole time. The
passengers and flight attendants in the main cabin noticed
nothing unusual. And the pilots' bodies stayed planted in their
seats as though they were flying the aircraft. But they weren't
flying it. Their minds had been sucked into a pair of laptops.
William Saletan William Saletan  Will Saletan writes about
politics, science, technology, and other stuff for Slate. He’s
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land of laptop. Lost in the land of laptop  You can read the
whole story in a report released yesterday by the National
Transportation Safety Board. It's a portrait of the perils
lurking in our matrix of