"As a licensed commercial air carrier, your company has a statutory and moral responsibility to ensure the safety of your passengers. However, based on NTSB reports and public statements by Colgan officials, I am left to assume that your company is not conducting sufficient efforts to investigate the backgrounds and qualifications of your pilots; is requiring only the minimum training and safety requirements spelled out by the Federal Aviation Administration; and is making little to no effort to ensure that pilots have sufficient rest prior to taking control of your aircraft. While your company's guidelines may meet the letter of the law, they clearly do not satisfy the spirit of these regulations or the reasonable expectations your customers have that Colgan Air will make every effort to ensure their safety. "

I am sorry, but this is such a BS statement. Laws are established as LAWS. If the govn't feels that more training is neccissary, they need to regulate it. Its like posting a speed limit at 75mph when going through a turn you can only do it at 20hph, and then blaming everyone who hits the trees. Obviously, they shouldn't be going that fast into a turn. But were they breaking the law. No. Is the law sufficient, obviously not...