guys, whether we like it or not the Media will be all over "low-time" pilots and this unfortunate crash. The CA had 110 hrs in type if I read correctly, that is not a lot of time, and from what I understand this was the crews FIRST winter in the 121 world, or at least the CA's winter flying with Colgan was limited becuase he was IAH based on the SAAB?

This is what the Media is spewing out there, their job is to sell advertisement not be responsible segways of information to the public. The same thing may have happened to 20,000hr pilots, not setting flaps for T/O, trying to land in a T-storm (KLIT), bad things happen to both inexperienced and experienced pilots, but if the MEDIA can run with a story about how inexperienced these two where (there time was relatively low, like it or not) that's what they will report............

Like I mentioned earlier, anything short of a mid-flight collision (hell, even Excel air guys are being blamed) the BLAME will always lay with the pilot because there is too much MONEY to be lost if fault is found elsewhere.............