Feeling safe while flying?

The FAA released the recording from the cockpit of the Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot the Minneapolis, Minnesota, airport last month. The pilots told air traffic control that they had dropped from radio contact because of "cockpit distraction."

WOW...insert appropriate or non appropriate joke here ____

Read the article HERE to see who the men are that are in charge of getting 144 people to their destination safely. So what can possibly distract these men so much that they flew over a 100 miles out of the way? I think if you're in charge of actual lives, you should be more on your game and not really getDistracted.

However, us passengers have to basically strip naked before security, take off our shoes and basically get treated like prisoners. I can't bring a frigging nail clipper or anything over 4 ounces onto the plane, but it's OK for the pilot to get distracted in the cockpit? I think I can do a lot less damage with a pair of little scissors and a bottle of water (unless of course I was MacGyver) than these poor excuses for pilots.