I'm one of your SLF members and saw this news story earlier today on another (non-aviation) forum I visit.
The first thing that came to mind is a question:
I understand exactly what sevenstrokeroll is saying about the flight deck being a comfortable, warm place if you're tired. However, how realistic is it to get that drowsy on a route with a total flight time of 29 minutes. My (uninformed, amateur) impression is that this sort of route would be pretty busy from beginning to end and I'd have thought that drowsiness would be much more likely on much longer sectors. The analogy I gave my wife was that a driver is much more likely to get drowsy at the wheel on a long boring highway than on a short hop in town. Was I wrong?
Bobbsy