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Buffalo Crash Hearing Focuses On Pilot Training

consumeraffairs.com 255 days ago

Investigators examine whether crew reacted properly to conditions The National Transportation Safety Board is holding hearings this week into the February 12, 2009 crash of a Continental Airlines turboprop near Buffalo that killed 50 people. The Dash-8 Bombardier operated by Continental contractor ...

Regional airlines' pilot pay, conditions at issue

AP News 269 days ago

Revelations on pilot pay, working conditions at regional airlines raise safety issues The investigation into the commuter plane crash in upstate New York that killed 50 people in February has exposed the long hours and low pay of some regional airline pilots. ...

Idle cockpit banter before US plane crash

AFP American Edition 270 days ago

The pilot and co-pilot of a US commuter plane that crashed February 12 near Buffalo, New York exchanged idle banter in violation of regulations moments before the plane went down, a transcript showed. It was 10:09 pm in Colgan Air's Bombardier Dash ...

Captain of crashed US plane was ill-prepared

AFP American Edition 271 days ago

The captain of a US commuter plane that crashed February near the northern city of Buffalo had flunked numerous flight tests during his career and was never adequately taught how to respond to an emergency, The Wall Street Journal reported. Citing unnamed ...

The National Transportation Safety Board Holds Hearing On Crash In Buffalo

Getty Images 273 days ago

WASHINGTON - MAY 12: Panelist John Erwin Barrett (C) from Colgan Air, Inc. testifies during public hearings on the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 at the National Transportation Safety Board while his colleagues Darrell Mitchell (L), Colgan Air, Inc.'s departing director ...

FAA reviews crew flying hours of NY crash airline

AP News 279 days ago

FAA looking into hours flown by some crews of Colgan, whose plane crashed into upstate NY home The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into whether some crew members of the airline whose flight crashed into a home in February, killing 50 people, ...

Doomed NY flight operator defends pilot training

AP News 291 days ago

Operator of plane that crashed in upstate New York defends its training as questions swirl The operator of Continental Connection Flight 3407 that crashed in Buffalo last week defended both its training programs and the pilot after investigators said they would examine ...

Plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot

AP News 291 days ago

Plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot, possible violation of safety recommendations The commuter plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot until just before it went down in icy weather, indicating that the pilot may have violated federal safety recommendations ...

US investigators to examine doomed plane's recorders

AFP Global Edition 291 days ago

Officials investigating the plane crash that killed 50 people outside of the northern US city of Buffalo were set to meet early Sunday to examine flight data and cockpit voice recorders. National Transportation Safety Board () investigator Steven Chealander said the review ...

Ice build-up reported on US plane before crash

AFP American Edition 291 days ago

An ice build-up may have contributed to the crash of a Continental Airlines plane that went down outside of the northern US city of Buffalo, killing 50 people, federal investigators have suggested. Forensic teams on Saturday scoured the rubble for human remains ...

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