It's probably just a coincidence, but the timing couldn’t be more ironic. Aviation news was dominated last week by 3 days of NTSB hearings that sought the cause of the Colgan Air Flight 3407 crash that destroyed a home while en route to Buffalo, NY. Throughout the hearings, pictures emerged of pilots who were fatigued and lacked key training, a captain who failed to disclose several checkride failures, and of a two-tier industry where regional airlines pay new-hire pilots little more than minimum wage. Then, late this afternoon, the FAA announced that they are proposing a $1.3 million civil penalty from Florida-based Gulfstream International Airlines, the first airline to employ the flight 3407 captain in 2004 and 2005. The alleged violations include...
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