wrxpilot
The proud, the few
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About half way down the article it makes the point that nine of the fatal accidents at the majors involved pilots without multiple checkride failures. With that logic you have a nine-times greater risk of an accident if you have not busted a checkride. There are more factors involved than checkride history.
Sigh... Some of you guys need to take a statistics class.
In that SAME article, the author points that roughly half of all airline flying is performed by regionals, but since 2004 there have been four regional airline accidents resulting in fatalities and just one fatal accident involving a major airline.
Failing multiple checkrides is indicative of a problem. Maybe it's aptitude, poor habits, poor foundation from early flight training, who knows. But seven checkride failures for the Pinnacle capt? Five for the Colgan capt? That is totally unacceptable, and I will not subject myself to the risk that a lowball airline like that has.