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Here is the teaser that they used on their web site to get you to buy the magazine.

Flight 3701 NTSB Report
Two joyriding pilots took a jet to its 41,000-ft. ceiling--and paid for the stunt with their lives. Here at PM.com, read a PDF-format transcript of the cockpit voice recording (CVR) of the crash of Flight 3701. Then, check back the week of Jan. 9, 2006 for the print investigative story that POPULAR MECHANICS magazine published in its January issue.
 
Here is another article I found today on Pinnacle.

Logan reports another incident on runways

Event is 17th in last 14 months

By Mac Daniel, Globe Staff | December 9, 2005
Just a week after local and federal aviation officials announced changes to improve runway safety at Logan International Airport, the airport recorded its 17th runway incident in the past 14 months, the most of any US airport, federal officials said yesterday.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said the latest runway incident happened around 4:45 p.m. on Nov. 29 when the pilot of a Northwest Airlink commuter jet took off on Logan's runway 22R without permission from the control tower. At the same time, a Continental Airlines 737, which had just landed from Newark with 103 passengers and five crew members aboard, was crossing the far end of that runway.
The planes were 3,600 feet to 3,800 feet apart horizontally when the Memphis-bound commuter flight with 33 passengers and three crew members left the ground, Peters said. Investigators are still trying to determine how close the planes were vertically as the Northwest Airlink plane flew over the Continental jet. The ground radar warning system was working, but did not alert air traffic controllers because it determined the chance of a collision was remote, he said.
At first, Peters said, officials didn't believe any other planes were on the runway. But a review of ground radar tapes on Wednesday showed the Continental plane. FAA investigators then reclassified the incident as a runway incursion, which federal safety standards define as any time an aircraft, vehicle, person, or object on the ground creates a collision hazard or any time aircraft taking off, landing, or intending to take off or land get too close to each other.
The Nov. 29 incident was not as serious as a June 9 close call, when two passenger jets with 381 people on board came within 106 vertical feet of colliding on takeoff, prompting new scrutiny of runway safety at Logan. But it continues a string of runway incursions that is one of the more perplexing in the nation. The 16 incidents between Oct. 1, 2004, and Sept. 30 were double Logan's total for the prior three-year period.
Logan, with about 1,250 daily departures and arrivals, is the nation's 17th busiest airport.
The latest incident remains under investigation. The FAA could take action against the commuter pilot, ranging from a warning and retraining to a license suspension or revocation, Peters said.
Philip Reed, vice president for marketing for Pinnacle Airlines Inc., which operates Northwest Airlink, said an internal review of the incident found that the pilot ''mistook the information [from the control tower] to turn and misinterpreted the word 'turn' for 'takeoff.' " Reed said the pilot remains on duty, ''though we have taken the appropriate action." He declined to elaborate.
Officials at the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Logan, said yesterday they were trying to learn more about the latest incident. Safety at the airport remains the authority's highest priority, especially during the busy holiday travel season, they said.
But US Representative Michael E. Capuano, a Somerville Democrat who has been vocal on the issue, said yesterday that both the FAA and Massport must find a solution.
''The FAA's job, Massport's job -- their first job, their top job -- is to provide the safest possible travel they can. And when they both fall down doing it, they should be criticized as much as they can," he said. ''God forbid there's an accident. They will both be held to full accountability."
After an intensive investigation of the spate of runway incidents by a FAA team, the FAA and Massport announced Nov. 22 they had agreed to more than 40 safety recommendations. They include speeding approval and construction of a 9,300-foot taxiway that would keep planes going to and from gates from crossing runways in use by other planes; requiring ''back-to-basics" training for air traffic controllers; and placing strict limits on planes taking off on runways not normally part of takeoff patterns, a scenario that helped lead to the close call on June 9.
But other than suspending the practice of allowing pilots to take off on runways not in use, Peters said none of the short-term recommendations have yet been put in place.
New pilot charts of Logan, detailing taxiing directions and the locations of previous runway incidents, won't be available until spring, he said. Other recommendations have not begun or remain incomplete.
Logan has been put on the short list for an advanced ground radar system that works better at night and in bad weather. Massport officials last month pledged to spend nearly $9 million of the authority's funds to speed the installation of the new system. Once approved, however, it would not be online for at least another two to three years, officials said.
Also yesterday, the Massachusetts congressional delegation urged FAA chief Marion Blakey to stop planned personnel cutbacks at the agency's regional office in Burlington, saying that ''passenger safety is of a newly heightened concern at Logan after the recent series of runway incursions and radar problems."
The delegation's letter said the cuts would affect at least 79 ''essential staff support" jobs.
FAA officials, however, denied that the cuts would hurt safety at Logan or elsewhere in New England, saying they involve only administrative staffers.
FAA spokesman Greg Martin said the jobs being cut are in human resources, accounting, and the headquarters' legal department. He said the cuts, a 33 percent reduction in the office's 236 positions, would result in no drop in positions at Logan's control tower and no cuts to any positions overseeing safety or operations in the region.
Mac Daniel can be reached at [email protected]. http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/File-Based_Image_Resource/dingbat_story_end_icon.gif
 
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Nice, "the pilots remain on duty, though we have taken the appropriate action"
Translation:
We can't afford to sit these guys on the sidelines at all cause we can't staff this place properly. They will continue on the assigned trip and then be junior manned at the end.
 
A couple of points...

There were 16 other runway incursions within the past 14 months. There are 16 other companies in the same boat. Does that excuse the crew, no. It was an error. Planes departing on crossing runways frequently "overfly" the other traffic that has just pasted down field. 3/4 of a mile down the runway? Doesn't sound as dramatic as some would like.

The staffing levels don't have anything to do with repurcutions to the crew. We have had crews fired for far more meaningless things.....but none for getting drunk on overnights.
 
No need to turn this into a tired, old XJ vs. 9E thread. Haven't we put that one to rest yet? Let's all pipe down.

MM
 
Pinnacle has been in the news a lot more than the rest of us.
41,00 ft joyride
taking the short route to the gate in MKE last winter
and now this
 
redflyer65 said:
A couple of points...

We have had crews fired for far more meaningless things.....but none for getting drunk on overnights.


I'll take a drunk pilot on a 19 hour overnight over a pilot falling out of the sky from 410, and not knowing why, any day of the week.


Speaking of drinking...
 

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