WASHINGTON—US government officials said Tuesday they will beef up inspection of pilot training programs at regional airlines in response to safety concerns raised by the crash of a regional airliner in New York in February.

Yeah, it is the DEAD PILOTS FAULT! Sigh!


Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Aviation Administrator Randy Babbitt said in a statement they will also hold a meeting with the airline industry—both regional and major carriers—next week to seek better pilot training, cockpit discipline and other safety improvements. Babbitt said it was clear from the crash of a regional airliner in upstate New York on Feb. 12 that safety needs to be improved....

All these COSTS based on LIES!!!!


Testimony at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing last month revealed that a series of critical errors by the captain and co-pilot preceded the crash of Continental Express Flight 3407 as it eared Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Feb. 12.....

Well, let's get their side of the sto... oh, right, stone cold dead!

Sure makes an easy patsy, huh?


The flight was operated for Continental by Colgan Air Inc. Testimony at the hearing indicated the flight's captain may not have had hands-on training on a critical cockpit safety system. The cockpit voice recorder showed the co-pilot describing her lack of experience flying in icy weather not long before the crash.

Those the phony logs or.... (
When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing)?

The NTSB investigation has also raised concern that pilot fatigue may have been a factor in the crash. The co-pilot, Rebecca Shaw, lived near Seattle on the West coast with her parents and had commuted all-night to get to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on the East coast , where Flight 3407 originated. The captain, Marvin Renslow, commuted to work from his home in Florida. It is not clear where either of them slept the night before the crash or how much sleep they received.

Testimony at the hearing indicated they may have tried to snatch sleep in a crew lounge at the airport in violation of company policy. The pair were chitchatting just before the crash, which may have prevented them from realizing the airspeed of the twin-engine turboprop had dropped dangerously low.

Oh my God! The SHAMELESS ATTEMPT to PIN THIS on CREW when a 9/11 Truther was -- dare I say -- MURDERED in the crash!!!!

Jeff Skiles, the co-captain of the US Airways flight that made a safe emergency landing in the Hudson River in January, said most regional airline pilots are well qualified but "there are cracks in the system." Interviewed Tuesday on CBS television's "The Early Show," Skiles said the current rest rules "are less restrictive than truck drivers work under. Once you've been on duty for 13 hours, you are about 500 percent more likely to make an error, and once you've been on duty for 16 hours, you have the response rate of somebody who is legally drunk."

Oh, so now the pilots were damn near drunk!