Originally Posted by
Superpilot92
Just like most fms aircraft it will default into heading mode if it passes the last fix on the arrival but we dont know when and if that happened based on this story. There are a number of things that could have happened and to further speculate we'd need more info. Could they have fallen asleep? sure but we just dont know the details yet.
If you look at the altitude and track... they continued on heading beyond msp and didnt start descending until the turn in WI.
heading and altitude hold...
We all know how sleepy you can get going eastbound and watching that sun dissappear on a long leg, which jives with the reports of "lost contact."
I'd like to see what their rotation looked like.