Originally Posted by Hobbs
Does anyone know if the families of the two pilots from Pinnacle who crashed are going to get any money? I heard they were going to sue the airline. Though after listening to the voice recorder and other stuff, I can't imagine why they would get any. And just to clarify, they weren't MPD pilots.
Though after hearing about that I'm not exactly psyced to have Pinnacle fly me home to Wausau from Minneapolis.
Any mesaba pilots out there? You guys probably know where Wausau is
its sucks doesn;t it. And if you get stuck overnight that sucks even more. You get to smell the paper mill all night!
The families did sue. The pilots in question were acting like total @sses on the tape...HOWEVER, the airplane WAS certified to F410, even though every experienced operator knew damn well that the airplane was really marginal above the mid-30's. Additionally, GE and/or bombardier knew about the Core-lock phenomenon which supposedly rendered the engines inoperable after the flame-out, but this information was not available to rank-and-file pilots at any airline that I know of, and I'm not sure if the airlines even knew about it. I suspect that they have a case since transport categort airplanes are supposed to be able to maintain their service ceiling without stalling or flaming out, and transport category engines are supposed to be re-startable after a flame out.
The FO was a brand-new pay-for-training guy out of Gulfstream. The CA was ERAU.