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 can't find the exact number, but if I remember right, he started flying for Gulfstream with under 500 hours and then was hired at Colgan with under 1000.
Other notable crashes with flight crew who were under 1500 hours when hired:
Pinnacle 4712: Captain total time 5600 (1400 when hired)
Pinnacle 3701: FO total time 761 (549 when hired)
Air Midwest 5481: Captain total time 2790 (925 when hired, 1690 at upgrade)
Air Midwest 5481: FO total time 1096 (390 when hired)
I can make that statment because he would have just instructed until 1500 and still been hired just like the FO, just at a later date, so technically he would have been there but with what 800 hours less 121 experience, so probably same result. By the way the FO was hired at 1600+, and would have been there too, I think that they would have both been there that night regardless, now the question is had they been trained on the q400 differently would the outcome been different? How about better training oversight (which I have been preaching) Maybe his failures would have prevented him from being there???. In the end, a simple 1500 hour rule would not have prevented this.