FAA establishes pilot records database in wake of Flight 3407 crash

[RDoug]

FAA establishes pilot records database in wake of Flight 3407 crash

• A federal pilot records database – aimed at preventing airlines from making hiring mistakes – began to take shape Thursday, seven years after Congress called for such an online resource in aviation safety. The legislation was passed in response to the 2009 crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence.

 

[mshunter]

Just skimmed the article. So does this mean that we can do away with filling out all that ridiculous PRIA paperwork? And will there be a way to dispute errors in the database?

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

7 years to come out with a test version of software a high school CS student could program in a couple of weeks.

 

[trafficinsight]

"Had we known what we know now, he would not have been in that seat," Philip H. Trenary, president and chief executive officer of Pinnacle Airlines, owner of Colgan Air, said at an August 2009 Senate hearing on the crash.

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[CoffeeIcePapers]

"Had we known what we know now, he would not have been in that seat," Philip H. Trenary, president and chief executive officer of Pinnacle Airlines, owner of Colgan Air, said at an August 2009 Senate hearing on the crash.

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Didn't he fail multiple events at Colgan as well?

 

[trafficinsight]

Didn't he fail multiple events at Colgan as well?

I seem to remember that being the case.

I don't think failed checkrides tell the whole story, though, by a long shot.

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