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[BR44]

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Part One: The Industry

Amid lax regulation, air cargo has evolved into the deadliest form of commercial flight in the U.S., with nearly a fatal crash a month.
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The NTSB usually blames the pilot for air cargo's fatal crashes, but a Herald investigation found other contributing factors were downplayed or ignored.

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Many cargo pilots earn scant pay and log long hours in a quest to move up the ladder. But their industry is fraught with risks not encountered by passenger pilots.


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Lara Goldman Lennon
Widowed from cargo crash

A nine-month Miami Herald investigation, built upon thousands of pages of documents, uncovered more fatal cargo crashes than government logs reflect.

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[BR44]

Sorry about the disarray, I was trying to copy the cover for you to see with the article link. You guys might like to read it.

 

[pipejockey]

Thanks for posting those articles. It certainly is time to address some of those issues. I never did agree with all the single pilot operations going on. All about money though. Now I am sure all the John Wayne pilots will mouth off about single pilot ops being just as safe, but just an extra set of eyes in the cockpit increases safety. Most of these single pilot wrecks are caused from task saturation, and being exhausted.

 

[belchfire]

What a crock of fertilizer...how can there be more crashes than the "government logs" reflect...

More media hype on something they don't understand...in spite of "nine months of research and thousands of pages of documents".

Time and duty regs need to be addressed though. I found that the Single Pilot Scheduled 135 14hrs duty/10 hrs off/max 8hrs flight is better than I got in 121 domestic!

 

[pipejockey]

More media hype on something they don't understand...in spite of "nine months of research and thousands of pages of documents".

Time and duty regs need to be addressed though. I found that the Single Pilot Scheduled 135 14hrs duty/10 hrs off/max 8hrs flight is better than I got in 121 domestic!

So what don't they understand? I knew a John Wayne type with the mile wide ego would have to respond to these articles. So how can you say a single pilot operation with a 14 hour duty day is any better than the 16 hour 2 pilot duty day most of us operate under? How many times in a 2 or 3 crewmember aircraft is one guy sleeping? In more cases than not, at least one of the 3 crewmembers in my 727 job would fall asleep for some time during a flight.

It's a fact that there is cargo pilot dying each month on average due to getting in over his head in bad weather, or experiencing equipment malfunctions, or just plain making a mistake that wouldn't have occured with an extra set of eyes in the cockpit. These little rattle traps they fly all night long in the same kind of weather that the heavy iron is going through. I have often said while flying through some horrible weather, that I sure wouldn't want to be in a little puddle jumper in this crap. It's too much for many to handle by themselves, especially when things are not running smoothly.

We all can't be immune from mistake like belchfire apparently, and the NTSB reports back that up. For as few of these single pilot flights that operate each day compared with the 121 flights, one crash a month resulting in death is entirely unacceptable. And the FAA being as worthless as ever, continues to turn a blind eye. Nothing is more important than moving the almighty freight!! Screw that!!!

 

[skyking]

amen to what pipejockey just said about this single pilot freight ops. And belchfire you must have never flown single pilot freight in your life to come up with a ridiculous statement like that.