Check ride stall recovery is now graded differently too, thanks to this incident: http://www.flyingmag.com/pilots-places/pilots-adventures-mor..., under the belief they could've been making pilots instinctively afraid to lose altitude during stall recovery.
It's also believed the pilots on this flight were fatigued, and performance was impaired. Given how bad humans are at even driving cars while exhausted, it's not surprising it's hard to fly a plane in that condition.
Full disclosure: All but the first link are cited by the same Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407. I immediately recognized the story of this crash because I have a bit of a fascination with how things can go horribly wrong.
This layman also cringed while watching a TV documentary about this flight the moment the reenactment pilot pulled up during a stall warning, and again when the co-pilot retracted the flaps. "Are you trying to crash‽" is what I wanted to yell at my monitor.
There was also drama around a whistleblower being ignored and demoted after bringing up safety concerns about Colgan Air: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/nyregion/04colgan.html?_r=...
Check ride stall recovery is now graded differently too, thanks to this incident: http://www.flyingmag.com/pilots-places/pilots-adventures-mor..., under the belief they could've been making pilots instinctively afraid to lose altitude during stall recovery.
It's also believed the pilots on this flight were fatigued, and performance was impaired. Given how bad humans are at even driving cars while exhausted, it's not surprising it's hard to fly a plane in that condition.
Full disclosure: All but the first link are cited by the same Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407. I immediately recognized the story of this crash because I have a bit of a fascination with how things can go horribly wrong.
This layman also cringed while watching a TV documentary about this flight the moment the reenactment pilot pulled up during a stall warning, and again when the co-pilot retracted the flaps. "Are you trying to crash‽" is what I wanted to yell at my monitor.