Originally Posted by
yamahas3
The point being there is a threshold where a bad pilot in the cockpit is no longer the pilot's fault and becomes the airline's fault. That captain should've never been flying an airliner around. It is quite apparently that he lacked the skill and natural ability to do so safely. But, Colgan still put him there, can you blame him for taking that opportunity?
If Colgan put a monkey in the cockpit and the plane crashed, would anyone really be saying "This crash was due to the monkey's lack of ability to promptly and correctly respond to the stick shaker?" No. Its Colgan's fault for putting that monkey in the cockpit in the first place.
Ok and on the other hand Colgan hired a squeaky clean FO CFI which anyone would have hired that raised the flaps at 20 degrees pitch up during a stall when she should have been beating on the guy severly to get the nose over to pick up airspeed. This is what I mean by freak accident. Where do we draw the line between incompetent and competent? Because both sides can be argued in the crash. I am tired of everyone blaming regional pilots for this crash when they should just be blaming this crew, change the training standards and be done with it.