Originally Posted by
winglet
Between the Aug. '06 Comair accident and the Feb. '09 Colgan accident not one passenger died in an aircraft accident in the United States.
What if Comair was flying a Q in LEX and Colgan was flying a CRJ in BUF? Then we wouldn't have to ban all aircraft to make traveling on them safe.
I really love this bit...
The Star notes Hall's recommendation would cause "havoc" if implemented, stranding tens of thousands of passengers flying on routes now served by regional turboprops. FAA spokesperson Laura Brown told the paper she sees little chance of that happening.
Maybe they get their information from the show 24, where it's taking 7 hours to get every airliner over the USA back on the ground.
Where could the airline industry possibly find enough small aircraft to replace these deadly regional turboprops on short notice? Not to mention finding hundreds of pilots trained to fly them?