Air tragedy puts focus on big, small carrier ties

[CLARKGRSWOLD]

Then AA must have the worst pilots in the industry. You all crack me up.

 

[Nevets]

The only fatal accident remotely associated with XJT was caused by Britt airways, a predecessor to COEX flt 2574 09/11/1991. XJT after the merger has not had a fatal accident.

And that was attributed to bad maintenance.

 

[Simon Says]

Mesaba has never had an accident. (of course I am not counting the time when mx ran one of our avros into a jet bridge in MEM)

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

The problem is the outsourcing of the outsourced. Colgan outsourced XJT who outsourced CAL..... in a decade Colgan will be as good and as expensive as XJT, CMR and ASA are today... and Colgan will be outsourced...

When you function with a pure profit mindset... and cost is the monolithic all consuming effort.... this will continue to happen. This is not exclusive of the airline industry... this is a nationwide and economy wide problem......

As a culture and society we have to define our values outside of the dollar... unfortunately that is all we know....


where to even begin....

 

[N813CA]

There were also many things going against the Comair pilots if you just look into it. Yes it was pilot error, but Colgen was simply..... Well they both sucked ok.

 

[Erlanger]

Guys, the Colgan accident today got very little news. The PBS special won't get watched by many. Who will be up on a Tuesday night at 9pm? Besides anybody know what else will be on that same time that Americans would rather watch?

Americans these days have other things they're worrying about. There may be changes in the industry that will affect those of us in it but the spotlight will fade and it'll be business as usual and the public will fly on who ever gets them there cheapest and quickest. Whether it's a big planes, little plane, jet or prop; it won't matter.

Just don't be crashing anymore airplanes.

 

[sniper]

There were also many things going against the Comair pilots if you just look into it. Yes it was pilot error, but Colgen was simply..... Well they both sucked ok.

COMAIR Monroe Michigan, LEX
EAGLE ATR Indiana

pilot error

 

[4BlueBars]

Mesaba has never had an accident.

What do you want......a cookie?

 

[CLARKGRSWOLD]

There were also many things going against the Comair pilots if you just look into it. Yes it was pilot error, but Colgen was simply..... Well they both sucked ok.

Um no, They took off on the wrong runway, in the wrong direction. Sorry bud, but that was Pilot Error

 

[suupah]

Let's not stomp on peoples graves here. Pilot error has been and will be the number one cause of aviation accidents. Sometimes its the best of pilots.