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I will take your logic to the next level: It wasn't poor piloting skills that killed those people, it was blunt force trauma.

Haha. A lack of regulation allowing the regionals to hire 'just about anyone' had nothing to do with 3407. Everything is okay, just that damned blunt force trauma thing again.

Congress to decide that regional pax ought to be wearing helmets, shoulder harnesses, and mouthpieces.. :laugh:
 
3 weeks ago the country was in an uproar about this whole incident. Now?....Back to your regularly scheduled airline hell where the FAA looks the other way and airline lobbyists with $$$ keep things status quo.
 
3 weeks ago the country was in an uproar about this whole incident. Now?....Back to your regularly scheduled airline hell where the FAA looks the other way and airline lobbyists with $$$ keep things status quo.

One of American's biggest failings in my view is their VERY short attention span.. It's sad, but we've had "commuter" airlines in the news ever since I can remember over safety, training ,experience, pay, etc.. NOTHING has been done.. The ATA has far more lobby power than any ALPA, or pilot organization.
 
Like the FAA would have saved everyone in Buffalo?

Poor pilot skills killed those people...Not the FAA.


If the FAA had not approved the operation of those airplanes because of the observed poor pilot skills, those people would be alive. Hence, the FAA had a role in causing their deaths.
 
The ATA has far more lobby power than any ALPA, or pilot organization.

It's not surprising. Lobbying is a priority for the airlines, and it's not a priority for the pilots (ALPA-PAC contributions are at a pathetically low percentage, especially for the regional airlines).
 
ALPA is fast becoming a regional union... the rapid growth of commuters into regionals over the past 10 years has long since made that point moot.
 

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