Originally Posted by
Window_Seat
He crashed because he wasn't competent the fundamentals. Wasn't comfortable with stalls. That is to be learned in the very beginning, and mastered while a CFI. The guy didn't know how to recover from stalls. Important skill as a pilot. Colgan overlooked a lot of the guys history because they needed people to work at the level they were willing to pay. He was willing and eventually, in their opinion, a future captain. Colgan couldn't be selective. .
That's a little monday quarterbacking. How many times have you done stall recoveries with your airliner at 1500ft during inclement weather? Do you honestly believe that they didn't know how to get out of a stall, the FO? Another words if you had pulled that CA aside and asked him to explain stalls and recovery procedures, he would have gotten it wrong? A PPL should be able to get out of a stall. It's very obvious that airline training played a very key role in this, or lack of it, along with other factors like fatigue and maybe even crew pairings.