Originally Posted by
blastoff
This was a big deal in 1994, all the news outlets were talking about the safety of "prop-planes" (even though the ATR was new) and companies stopped flying ATR's in the north during winter. Not unlike the reaction after the Colgan crash...some of the news agencies were citing the Eagle crash when details were scarce immediately following Colgan.
refresh my memory on the error of colgan.. was it lack of activating deicing or just poor response to the warnings? I watched the entire video... found it very intriguing. I can see where the company of the ATR would want to blame the pilot, because i would think if you retracted flaps and something happens thereafter, why not put the flap setting back to where it was? Try to re-create what kept the plane flying before. Unfortunate and sad situation.