Fatal shoptalk.The crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 that killed 50 people led the year's fifth-heaviest Transportation week (37 min v 14 avg). Although flying under the Continental logo, it was operated by Colgan Air Colgan Air is an American fully certificated regional airline subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines Corporation. Headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, its major hubs are New York's LaGuardia Airport, Boston's Logan International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, and . Its crew was poorly trained, poorly paid and flying fatigued. The NTSB NTSB abbr. National Transportation Safety Board published transcripts of cockpit This article is about the flight deck of an aircraft. For other uses, see Cockpit (disambiguation). A cockpit is the area usually nearer the front of a piloted aircraft from which a pilot controls the aircraft. conversations that revealed a pair of pilots "deeply engaged in shoptalk shop·talk n. 1. Talk or conversation concerning one's work or business. 2. The jargon used in a specific business or field. ," as CBS' Nancy Cordes put it, just minutes before their plane stalled and crashed. Regionals, such as Colgan, carry 22% of passengers but have accounted for 150 out of the 151 airline fatalities since 2001. "Continental is not alone. Most of the major airlines outsource regional flights to local carriers," noted NBC's Tom Costello. |
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