Originally Posted by
crazyjaydawg
You're kidding right? The weather was typical soup in the NE in winter...The captain took it because he had SJS and would do anything to be able to fly for an airline!
Your wrong in your assumption of SJS. PIC at Colgan didn't have many options and had to have a pretty good excuse to not take an aircraft.
Bad weather wasn't one of and being tired was definately not an option.
Look at the changes made immediately at Colgan, i.e. fatigue calls were now acceptable. Immediately....hmmmm I wonder what the policy was before the accident? Weather isn't just soup, soup is good, SLD is deadly not matter what you fly. And yes the Captain did make a mistake, but so did the managment, dispatch and ATC. When you have experience in this line of work it isn't one thing that caused the accident it is a whole chain of events. Work from the accident backwards and look for clues, then make educated deductions based on facts and events!