Stilton:
Please read comments and full accident reports:
http://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/docs/ra...TA_ENG_web.pdf
angelorange: "There are so many stall accidents/incidents in recent years with poor to zero recovery technique: .....Turkish B737 1951 - rad alt fault/autoland stall"
In other words the automation was a contributory factor to the crash - yes the pilots should have picked up the fault earlier through better airmanship and monitoring (they continually cancelled rad alt warning) but they did not have sufficient height to carry out stall recovery at that extremely late stage. They would probably have been better off flying the whole approach on raw data manual throttles.
misd-agin:
"AngelOrange - the Captain might have had 600 hrs of Captain time at Colgan, PIC, or in the Q400 but he had more than 600 hrs TT."
He had 618h TOTAL time at the point of joining Colgan - that is the point about this thread and the new FAA 1500h minimums for hiring onto FAR 121. It is not about how many hours (mostly in the cruise on autopilot) he spent on the Q400 once he got the job.