Originally Posted by
HercDriver130
Having flown at two so called regional carriers (there is nothing regional about S5) is the safety culture less at these companies... maybe...sometimes... but I think the same could be said for Legacy carriers as well.... I mean... it wasn't a regional carrier who landed a wide body jet on a taxi way in ATL.
....or EWR. Or almost smeared a 744 all over the hills outside SFO, or flamed out the engines on a 767 coming out of Hawaii by turning off the WRONG pumps, etc etc etc.
The ONLY thing that separated those from a catastrophe was luck, NOT skill or experience, compensation, whatever.
It's been proven before, pilots in ALL spectrums of aviation at ALL experience levels can kill people with the same efficiency. Who they worked for and their experience level DIDN'T.