Said it all better than I can
underfire, when you get a chance, you *could* look up and read NTSB Chair Hersman's separate statement which they made part of the Board report on the Colgan accident. It was linked in a prior post in this thread. Then again, it makes a pretty articulate case for fatigue, when fairly raised by facts, to be a contributing factor. Facts, underfire, are not so easily swept away, as mere excuses. Then too, perhaps the Chair of the NTSB just plain ol' didn't know what they were writing about?