Flight crew overshoots Minneapolis landing

On Wednesday evening, two airline pilots flew 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination before reconnecting with flight controllers and eventually landing in MSP. The pilots claimed a heated conversation about airline policy had been the distraction. Of course, officials are now looking into fatigue as a culprit. The full article can be read here.

According to the reports, no one aboard the plane was hurt. No one knew they had bypassed their destination either. WHAT? No one checked their ticket after being in the air for over 3:30 hours? No one noticed the glow from the city below as they passed over? Come on folks, the midwest is dark at night. After Denver, what city en route would give off any kind of light, Sioux Falls? Fargo? It makes me want to grab a video camera and plane ticket and observe what's going on 35K miles above the ground. Something tells me that passengers noticed something seemed off, but didn't say anything. Why? Or did they, and I simply didn't find that article? Until I can process more, my prediction is simple. No one departing San Diego really wants to arrive in Minneapolis in late October anyway.