More sad news for Colgan Air out of CNN in Buffalo, New York. Colgan Air as you should remember was the carrier of Flight 3407 which crashed in nearby Clarence Center, New York just three months ago killing all 49 on board and one man on the ground. The Colgan Air pilot of that flight was found to be inadequately trained on the 'push stick' emergency procedure for an engine stall.
The plane in that crash was a Q400 model Bombardier. Another Q400 of Colgan's fleet experienced difficulty last week as it touched down at nearby
Buffalo Niagara International Airport. As the planes tires touched the runway, one of the wheels rolled off the axle and into the adjacent runway. No one was injured in the accident, that Colgan Air officially called a 'mechanical malfunction', has the FAA experienced layoffs or cuts in funding? What if it had been the wing that 'fell off due to mechanical malfunctioning' at twenty thousand feet?
We are in the 21st century here people, if we are going to compare flying on a commercial jet to riding a bus, we need to make 100% sure that a REAL mechanic works on that bus to make sure something doesn't happen, like the wheels falling off. Somewhere in a greasy, dust filled Colgan Air shop is a mechanic yelling "See I told you we'd fly Ol' Bessie til her wheels felld off! They just showd it on tha news, her wheel done fell offt!"
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