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Over the minneapolis airport and continued flying for another 150 miles. then at 8:14 p.m. central time, an hour and 20 minutes after losing radio contact, controllers reestablished contact with the crew, which requested permission to turn around and land in minneapolis. upon landing at 9:00 p.m., the crew told the fbi and airport police they had been in a heated conversation about airline policy and lost situational awareness according to the ntsb. investigators will also look into whether the crew fell asleep or were tuned to a wrong radio frequency. veteran pilots say it's possible. >> the ...

Delta northwest flight from san diego to minneapolis flew all the way to au claire, wisconsin, wednesday night before they realized they had gone 150 miles too far and had to turn around? colors are on the ground, pilots of other planes and even a play attendant back in the cabin tried to alert the crew. the pilots told investigators they were not sleeping. they claimed they were in a heated conversation about airline policy and lost track of the radio and the flight. they had been out of touch with air traffic controllers for over an hour. the ntsb will review the plane's play and data cockpi...

And working to try to contain other fuel tanks to prevent any more sdlogs explosions. ntsb trying to find out how who northwest airline pilots flew almost 200 miles past their destination. the crew which failed to make radio contact for more than an hour claims they were not sleeping, as some suspect, but, instead, in a heated conversation on on airline policy. the plane landed safely and apparently the passengers didn't know what happened. the two pilots have been suspended, though, while delta air lines, which acquired northwest last year, does its vegs investigation with that one. >> on the...

>> reporter: flying low, the captain has to focus on his pilot. >> you have to be a pilot and a marksman. how good a shot are you? >> pretty good at this point. >> reporter: at his core he's a firefighter. >> to me, all of the pilots are doing this are just like the regular firefighters that you see anywhere. and we do it in the air. >> reporter: nothing compares to this jumbo jet. if you were a passenger on a 747, this is where you would be sitting. instead on this plane they've got ten tanks carrying 20,000 gallons of fire retardant and/or foam. 90 tons of firefighting artillery. and these c...