Originally Posted by
kalyx522
I'm pretty shocked and angry that they let that fired FO come on the show and smear his fired captain's name very publicly. What the other two pilots said are accurate, but that FO pretty much ruined it for me. There is a lot more to the story than what he said. They could've showed so many real examples yet they bring up this incident that had nothing to do with the accident/safety and everything to do with a scumbag out to ruin another pilot's career and life. Apparently it wasn't enough that the capt will never be able to work as a pilot ever again, his name is revealed on public TV as a dangerous rule breaker.
It was absolutely the wrong example to use and the FO does come off as a scumbag. How do we know that there weren't 1/2 weights on the plane not counted until the CA counted them? For that reason I'm not worried that the CA supposedly cheated on the weights but rather the belief that 292lbs overweight makes the Saab 340 dangerously unsafe. I'd be fine with someone saying that if every single bag and passenger put on that plane was weighed and not averaged. Why not tell the folks that story?
Also, there wasn't much on the actual crash of the Colgan Dash 8. Not enough about how it got slow and possible reasons behind the events that followed from the pitching up to the raising of the flaps. I'd like to have seen more on that.
To me those were the two misses in what otherwise was an accurate well done documentary.