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Old Jun 6, 2011 | 6:14 pm
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Originally Posted by VegasCableGuy
You can watch this program: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/flyingcheap/ - it runs about an hour. It covers not just Continental 3407 but the company and industry conditions that contributed to the crash.

It's not simply that Colgan had a fatal accident - most carriers have, as you mentioned. It's *why* they had that fatal accident.
Not knowing (or not trained) in the shaker/pusher was rather foretelling to me. I was amazed since in the aircraft I train in a shaker/pusher test is done prior to EACH flight.
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