Thanks for the kudos.

I personally enjoy reading Les' column, although many of his takes on the industry are different than mine, as you might expect between a baby-boomer 777 check airman and a gen-Y regional guy. It's an interesting window into a world rather different than mine. I don't recall his specific article about CJC3407, so I won't debate that. But going a bit off-topic, I did a whole series of posts on the Colgan crash, not just the one you referenced, that you might find interesting. I think they're some of the best writing on the blog. They were all done in May 2009, in the middle of the NTSB hearings. Here's a link to May's postings, start at the bottom. The CJC3407 posts are:

Canary in the Coal Mine
Thirty Seconds of Silence
Thirty Seconds of Confusion
Thirty Minutes of Distraction
Thirty Years of Outsourcing Safety