Cheney, who has about 20,000 hours of flying time, told investigators he was "blown away" that he had been distracted for so long, saying that in 24 years of flying, "I've never, ever, been in. used his headset up to top of climb, and did not use them in cruise A320 time was about 10,000 hours with about 7,000 hours as the F/O was working the radios. The worried co-pilot called out into the cabin for help; passengers eventually were able to restrain the increasingly out-of-control pilot and the plane made a safe, emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas. He flew F/E and F/O on the Boeing 727, of hire at Northwest Airlines was 11/18/1985. Crew members on a Goa-Delhi flight might have been tipped off to Captain Parminder Kaur Gulatis lack of credentials after a hugely bumpy landing at Goa Airport back in 2011. Legal Statement. process. his medical record. lived near, He then looked at his MCDU and saw no flight plan, flipped his NAV Cheney's attorney ", Cheney and Cole told investigators that they had not fallen asleep, as originally had been suspected, but had become distracted by an airline scheduling system on their laptop computers and "got deeper and deeper into it.". fatigued although he heard it happened. Captain Cheney ,