Originally Posted by
symbian simian
I do think better FAA training record keeping and access would have done more. Just like the PF in Atlas crash, this individual had a long history of failures he managed to keep hidden from several employers. Being in a regional with training and checking events could weed these people out in a way that being a bad flight instructor or banner tower that manages to survive won't. Will they weed them out? I think that is the question...
Yes that's the issue. For both colgan and Atlas the issue wasn't so much lack of info (there was some of that) but lack of willpower on the part of the airlines. IIRC for one motive or another the airlines pushed them through despite both previously documented and observed deficiencies.