618
618 is the number of hours that the captain had (claimed) when he was hired by colgan some 4 years before the crash.
He had failed a number of checkrides in those 618 hours. His fundamentals probably were not that good and I have a feeling he didn't really have all those 618 hours in airplanes...that those 618 hours were largely in his imagination (P51 time).
AFter being hired by a colgan type place, he didn't learn much...and most of his flying was probably on autopilot...so he really wasn't very capable in my eyes...capable of avoiding or recovering. It was obvious that COLGAN didn't have the proper oversight for pilots...training, examinations etc.
And the copilot was so damned worried about the flaps and the gear...she didn't have a clue what was going on. Her background scares me too. And if she was an instructor, if I were head of the FAA I would re examine all of her students for their skill level.