Originally Posted by CE750

That is what's known in debate parlance as a "Red Herring" .. which is to say, that the fact that one is true, makes not the other true. While good pilots will occasionally make mistakes.. bad (or completely inexperienced) ones will likely make them more often, and when they make them, they're unlikely to know how to recover from them. The post-CRM era of "major" airline pilot safety is near impeccable.

This accident, as with the Roselawn ATR, or the Pinnacle CRJ are all examples of completely unprofessional and inexperienced pilots who can only get away with it under our corrupt FAA system which relies on the crutch of the US Airspace / ATC system and the over automation of airplanes today... Take these same caliber crews to some of the same places I flew to at Gemini, with no radar, minimal ATC, and in airplanes that are far less forgiving to the situationally imparred... and your accident rate would go thru the roof.

It's all a cost benefit issue and the "regionals" are relying on the American short attention span to keep hiring low quality pilots and rolling the proverbial dice.