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leardawg said:A good friend of mine was hired at Grande Air/Tri-Coastal a few years ago, and I just had a bad premonition something bad would happen to him. He wound up being killed in the Hansa Jet crash with the founder/owner, Tahir Cheema. He was the kind of guy who would give you the shirt off his back, and was eager to do a good job and be a "team player". I'm pretty convinced that's what got him killed.
ACT700 said:Greed finally did T.C. in. Too bad he took someone with him.
Lear Wanna Be said:TB,
That is very good point that you make about most of the accidents being due to the dreaded pilot error. With one exception, the metro that crashed and killed the pilot this year looks like there was at least some sort of mechanical problem. Could the pilot have done more and perhaps contributed to the accident. Well the final report has not been released so we don't know.
With so many crashes since 2000, even if they all were pilot error, you have to admit that this perhaps was due to an organizational problem. Such as, what kind of pilots do they select (young low timers hungry for turbine time) perhaps, I don't know. Or was the problem that they gave these guys little if any training? Again I don't know. One thing I do know is that the Falcon 20 that went into the Mississippi around St. Louis a couple years ago was the fault of the pilots and management. Another cargo operator was going to do that trip (ELP-STL), but told the customer they needed a fuel stop due to cargo weight. The customer apparently called Grand Aire and they were willing to do it non-stop. They would have made it too if they would not have had to do a go around on the first approach. Next pass got them a swim in the river.
The FAA keeps an eye on them, they have suffered through crashes and large fines. Hopefully they have got their management issues taken care of and it will be a safer place to work. Cover your backside if you decide to take the adventure.