The NTSB is in rare form right now with Colgan 3407. In the past, these inquiries and meetings about crashes took at least a year to come together. Somehow they are having these meetings just 3 months after the crash. The media is making a big deal about the Captain having failed 5 checkrides. Most [...]

The last day of the trip was just three legs. At 5AM the crew climbed into the hotel van and left for the airport. The first flight of the day has all of us preforming various checks associated with the first flight of the day. One of these checks failed. The flight attendants tested the [...]