Originally Posted by
bhag
There was an american eagle atr crash in san juan in 2004. The FO flying had just completed IOE and it crashed on landing with him as the FP. I can't remember the exact date but it was sometime around July/august of 2004.
The argument there however is that the pilot was new the airplane. Who knows how many hours that pilot had when he was hired. Whether it was 500 or 1500 that pilot was still new to the ATR. I don't know the specifics of that incident, but there were probably still many other factors surrounding that circumstance. If in fact that was proved to be a direct result of flying hours (or lack thereof) then the low hours argument presents some valid points.