Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Four Suits Charge Deficiencies In Stall Recovery Training
In the latest scattershot series of
lawsuits, FlightSafety International has been named in four
cases connected with the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407. The
suits allege deficiencies in stall recovery training for both the
pilot and copilot of the aircraft.
The suits allege that Capt. Marvin D. Renslow and First Officer
Rebecca Lynn Shaw were trained in flight simulators under contract
with Colgan Air, Renslow in St. Louis and Shaw in Toronto. But the
suits allege that neither pilot received training using the stick
pusher in Colgan aircraft.
The Buffalo News reports that an NTSB re-construction of the
accident shows that Renslow pulled back on the controls of the
aircraft when the stick pusher was activated, causing the aircraft
to stall and enter a spin from which he was unable to recover. The
NTSB has not determined the actual cause of the accident, but
preliminary reports have cited factors such as icing, pilot
fatigue, and "idle cockpit chatter" (violation of the sterile
cockpit doctrine) as possible contributors to the
accident.
Dozens of suits have previously been filed in relation to the
crash, but these are the first to name highly-respected
FlightSafety International as a defendant. “We felt that
training was part of this,” said attorney James T. Scime of
Lipsitz Green, who filed suit for Justine Krasuski on behalf of
Jerome Krasuski of Cheektowaga.
FlightSafety did not have an immediate response to the
charges.
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