Thu, Mar 26, 2009
Lessons Of Flight 1549: Is Airline Crew Training Adequate?
Does the current airline model prepare up-and-coming flight and
cabin crews to face situations like those which faced the crew of
US Airways Flight 1549 on January 15? Today, the US House Aviation
Subcommittee hears testimony from Captain John Carey, Chairman of
the Accident Investigation Committee of the US Air Line Pilots
Association, and Candace Colander, Coordinator, Air Safety, Health
and Security Coordinator for the Association of Flight
Attendants.
This feature is in addition to our daily news briefing --
available in either a quick "Touch And Go" format, or an expanded
Aero-Briefing -- where you'll hear these stories:
NTSB downplays the role of icing in the crash of Flight
3407...
A Lockheed test pilot is dead in an F-22 crash...
And it looks like Randy Babbitt to lead the FAA
...And more
ANN Daily Touch N Go: 03.26.09 (ANN's
Short-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 03.26.09
(ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature -- Lessons Of Flight 1549:
03.26.09 (ANN Special Report, with testimony from
Captain John Carey, Chairman of the Accident Investigation
Committee of the US Air Line Pilots Association, and Candace
Colander, Coordinator, Air Safety, Health and Security Coordinator
for the Association of Flight Attendants.)
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