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Originally Posted by DE727UPS Blahblahblah said: "I tried to verify it, but the pinnacle RJ that crashed in 2004 was flown by a crew who came up the "right way." Not by a crew of bridgers, so the fear of a low time F/O is pretty much unwarranted"
Then Blahblahblah said: "The accident had nothing to do with the F/O being a low timer"
First it was unwarranted, then, when faced with the fact that it WAS warranted, you explain away that low time had nothing to do with it.
Whatever....
Personally, I think the fact that the Capt had 150 hours in the left seat of the jet and the F/O had 222 hours in the jet and 761 total speaks volumes. Not enough experience to be pushing the envelope, as they were. Of course, planes don't fall out of the sky because of those times. These guys were a couple of screwoffs (read the transcript) that decided to mess around with an empty jet. That they both were at one time at Gulfstream kinda makes you wonder.... |
So...maybe Pinnacle should be held responsible for placing two Gulfstreamers in the same cockpit at the same time? I can see the new company SOP manual " At no time shall former Gulfstream Academy pilots occupy the same cockpit at the same time." Come on.. where they trained was not a causal factor in this accident. The hate for this company is so thick, you need a cutting torch to cut it. I read the transcript, the Captain had thousands of hours in a turbo prop before coming to Pinnacle.
There are a number of people on this board who are flying with now, or are going to fly with Pinnacle in the near future. Are these same people, upon learning their Captain is a Gulfstreamer, going to get up out of the cockpit and refuse to fly with him? This whole thing is silly!