Originally Posted by
Purpleanga
Exactly and the 100 in type is an airline training problem, not a pilot problem. Both of them admit to having very little experience in icing doesn't really matter anyways since this was not an ice issue. Most of the time you start seeing real ice when you start flying advanced planes, not as a VFR CFI. And there are thousands of cases where pilots are forced to fly in unsafe situations. It's nothing new.
Low experience does not mean low time. Poor training? YES As did the AA pilots that went into the mountain in South America. Again, you haven't shown an accident that was caused by 200 wonders.
Training is another reason I'm antsy about riding on regionals. The training departments do basically enough to cover within the shadow of the law. This is especially true at the "lower end" regionals.
The majors have made many mistakes over the years which have resulted in fatalities but many improvements to training and equipment. However it looks like the regionals are trying to redo them and learn the same lessons over again. Never compromise savings, right?
the AA pilots that went in simply line selected the wrong NDB lat/long... for some reason the FMC prompted a far away ndb of the same name as L1.
Combine that with high workload/task saturation, an unfamiliar area, and very high hills...