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how did they get the video?? shouldnt portable electronic devices be off during landing??????haha

 

Exactly, that pax should be prosecuted for breaking FAR's and whipped with a wet noodle. Then maybe a little waterboarding by Nancy Pelosi. Seriously, how do people know when this kind of stuff is going to happen, then catch it on video. Maybe it was a conspiracy and the person sabotaged the wheel trying to get paid by a tabloid for the video. Also, that Q-400 gear collapse in Denmark captured on video. Crazy. Makes you wonder how much of our normal day to day ops is taped and not sent out to the masses. We all better watch our backsides. On a layover when your throwing back a few barley pops tell people you sell insurance or some other job you can talk semi-intelligently about so your not anwering alcohol before flying q's. My $.02.

 

blowing a tire and having the wheel, hub, and brake assembly FALL OFF(!!!!!) are two very different things. I think what the original poster was getting at is that Colgan has had a bad reputation for maintenance and an overall operation for a very long time. Almost everyone knows an ex-colgan pilot who does not speak highly of the operation. When they come to their new airline and they realize that there arent any MEL's on the aircraft and if they need something fixed it i will get fixed.... SHOCK! I would seriously hesitate to send family on Colgan airlines.

FO's making under 20K a year, a hiring department that is to busy to check your FAA records???, a questionable at best maintenance department, There old hiring mins were 600TT before the economic slowdown and they went below those on occasion, and the least of my worries is the airplane which has a far from stellar performance record but is forgiveable because it is still working out its kinks. Sorry that i am far from impressed.

 

Ahhh, one of those nights. I do know the difference between I and III but apparently not last night.

 

Well, Cpt Cook, or whatever you fancy yourself to be, if you weren't so cheap and look for the cheapest air fare, you wouldn't have to fly on any Colgan flight. You always have the option to walk, Suuh.

 

Didn't Southwest fly airplanes around for over a year that were missing inspections. Someone could have gotten hurt if that part had failed.

 

Virgin America, Allegiant and Jet Blue do not have regionals contracted either.

 

In the not too distant past, UAL's hiring mins were 350 TOTAL TIME with a Comm/Instr ticket....and they are a MAJOR airline? Guess they could only hire the bottom feeders with mins like that, right? Nope, wrong. Just as using total hours doesn't represent a pilots skill level, having a wheel bearing give out doesn't make a maintenance department questionable.

 

I don't think united has hired with 350 hours since the mid 60's