Originally Posted by
SrfNFly227
How can you make this statement when the Captain of 3407 was hired with less than 1500 hours. People love to point to his total time and then say that he was high time. What you are missing is that a 1500 hour requirement would have kept him from being hired at the time that he was.
I fail to see your point.
He didn't crash the airplane when he was below 1500 hours, and got thousands of hours in Colgan airplanes in the Colgan system between hire and when the plane went down.
Delaying his hire until he had more than 1500 hours, using your example, is no guarantee that he wouldn't have still screwed the pooch on a simple stall recovery (to say nothing of not letting it happen in the first place).
So no, he being hired under 1500tt didn't have ANYTHING to do with this accident and would
not have prevented it.
Also, while the raw facts support your hypothesis, using AMW 5481 is a long stretch...