Mesa ORD accident this morning

[Amish RakeFight]

Adorable photo, GULI.

Reminds me of myself as a toddler! (...and adult!)

Always reaching for the temptations in life.

 

[pdub20s]

You've flown the CRJ-200 PeeeeeeDubbs Mesa Management Goon aka JOs Fluffer?

No, but talking to guy who have flown both... The -200 is a dogg in the climb. im your moms fluffer!!

 

[Amish RakeFight]

<in my best yoda voice> Climb Restricted Jet, the -200 is. errrrmmmmm.

 

[Brasilia Pup]

On the grounds that the thing is CONSTANTLY broken, MEL'd etc. I've been commuting for 2 years straight on Delta MD-88s, 737s, and 757s. There have been 5 times total in those two years where we were late because the aircraft was "In Maintenance." How many times in a typical 4 day is your CRJ200 "in maintenance"? For me, if you fly a whole 4 day without being late for mx it's a miracle. And that is not counting all the "Gremlin" things that happen and you don't write up.

Maybe Delta mx is better than here, but THAT much better? The RJ could come out of a D check and still have problems the next leg. Plus, mainline aircraft don't have the gremlin problems that we have.

Finally, lets not even get into the flaps, icing, air conditioning, or the fact that if you have an alternate you are not taking a full payload.

Compare the CRJ-200 to any current 121 jet aircraft and tell me which one is worse.

Um, do you remember the Brasilia? Remember the "air conditioning" on that? or, the flap disagreements that happened on practically every leg? Thank goodness for the 5 generators, because usually 1 or 2 were deferred. How we flew w/o a Leatherman handy is beyond me. Or, the love boat ATR....flying that was almost as good as sitting nap reserve in current times...you didn't fly because Mx owned it most of the time.

 

[Brasilia Pup]

They also seem to think that there was no crew onboard, only 32 pax. Gotta love them feds.

Also to note, the FAA stated the air bags did not deploy.