Hours never said a person nor did the ATP rating stop someone from crashing a million dollar jet. Cali ring a bell? Value Jet? Over and over again, it is the PIC who is responsible for the flight. Colgan's training department I can't speak for, but for the most part what does any 121 training department train for.... worse case scenario's. They were below 10000ft, jabbering like fools, the icing was accumilating faster than they noticed(SLD) what was forecast....SVR ICING. They were downwind for the ILS below 3,000 (i believe) and slowing. CRM was the culprit, and for that we are going to punish the entire pilot population with something that will amount to nothing for the safety of passengers. Regional pilots take a lot of crap, I being one say the mistakes of a few shouldn't ruin our lives.
Nor is a witch hunt going to make this bad situation any better. Chuch Yeager couldn't have saved the passengers due the possible tail stall the occured at such a low slow stall!