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Yea that's 100% incorrect. Originally Posted by vilcas
Pinnacle plane went off runway in Cleveland last winter and pretty sure it was a former Colgan pilot at the helm.
The captain was a very nice guy, original pinnacle. The weather was terrible and after running the risk assessment matrix with SOC, they determined the flight was just barely good enough to go. They were both in agreement that if anything got worse, they would be diverting to the alternate. Along the way, they followed up on the weather and decided it was good enough to shoot the approach and attempt the landing. Upon landing on a contaminated runway with gusty winds the plane began to skid and he lost control of the airplane. He said afterwards the way he should've known the braking action was not good as reported by the earlier landing mainline Delta flights was because when the controllers would tell them to get off at specific taxiways, they would reply unable . The company said the only way he could've regained traction would have been by reducing the use of reverse thrusters but stood behind him and his actions because he had done everything in his power to assess all aspects of the situation and proceeded as safely as possible.
There are many important lessons to be learned from that incident for all of us. I understand how people can be anti-colgan/mesaba/who ever but bashing an entire pilot group seems completely baseless when this could've been anyone at any airline.