NTSB investigating possible nodding off of Northwest pilots

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Would something like this have been as likely to occur 50 years ago in the more demanding world of say a DC6/7?

Well, today at the rusty old farts' hangar as I call it, which is where a bunch of retired pilots get together to b.s. and work on airplanes that are older than they are, I asked each one of them if they had ever nodded off in the c/pit. Every one of them said they had. One even said he fell dead asleep and woke up wondering where the hell he was while flying the "North Star" which was a DC-4/6 hybrid, noted for its supercharged and very noisy Merlin engines.