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Old 02-02-2010, 12:34 PM
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yamahas3
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I was quite disappointed actually by the hearing. They put a huge amount of emphasis on the fact that the captain especially was unprofessional, fatigued, had significant long term poor performance, poorly trained, and flat out didn't know what he was doing. All of which appears to be true

BUT you get to a point where you need to put the blame on the company for having him in the cockpit instead of blaming the pilot. Colgan was the one responsible for having this pilot flying the plane. If I stuck two monkeys in the front of a Q400 and it crashed enroute, it would be a little silly to put the cause as "The Monkeys' inability to properly pilot the airplane..." It would read a little more like "yamahas3's improper decision to hire, pass, quality, and put monkeys in the front of an airliner, contributing factors being the fact that monkeys cant pilot a Q400."

This guy never, ever, should've been in command of an airliner. But he went for it and found a company that would give him that opportunity.
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