USAir Taking Air Tahoma Jumpseaters

[LearLove]

This has nothing to do with the JS issue but how does this happen? Was the FO in the back of the plane at the time of the accident.


"The pilot walked away from the crash. Rescuers found him sitting on a bench on the fairway, talking by phone with a company dispatcher and bleeding from his injuries.......
......The co-pilot's body was found buried in the gnarled wreckage of the tail section and was removed around noon."
Maybe he was fighting a cargo fire or something. I'm not trying to be funny or anything and with all respect to the FO.

Anyone know any details?

 

[Tahomos]

Sounds like the FOs side of the cockpit hit a tree while the captain's side continued forward.

 

[BTSOMT]

Bump!!!

 

[KeroseneSnorter]

They are supposedly "thoroughly briefed" by the owner of the company during ground school on how to travel for the company via USAir. They also do not get paid for the time it takes them to travel from their domicile to where the company wants them to work that week.

That violates U's policy on jumpseaters.(As well as all the other aircarriers I can think of!)

If it is Tahoma's company practice, U ALPA's Jumpseat committee should be informed. [email protected]

 

[BTSOMT]

I think the US Air Regional carriers are still letting this go on. Hopefully this will get the word out. It looks like their pilots are asked to lie about the nature of their travel and jumpseat without pay on their own time for the company?

 

[JetsByJune]

This is very sad

 

[ATRCA]

Good points, but that still is NOT the purpose of the jumpseat. This company needs to lose their jumpseat agrement with all airlines. If people have enough time to get a job with Air Tahoma, they should have enough time to get a job with any regional -- not sure what their hours our, but it can't be less the Continental Expresses 600/100. If they don't have the time to get on with another regional, then flight instruct, fly skydivers, banner tow, do something, but don't bring down the profession and the courtesy of the jumpseat which so many of us have worked hard and sacrificed to get. And yes, sacraficed, the company uses the jumpseat as a bargaining tool when negotiations come up, and to be able to take unlimited jumpseaters we have to give something up.

UUUHHMM....

The lowest time newhire I have flown with in the last 5 months had about 1100 TT, most of his time was PIC JET. He is an A-10 guy in the Conn. guard. I have not seen any of this 600/100 stuff. Mins and comptetitive mins are two different things.

 

[BTSOMT]

Are the regionals still letting them jumpseat?