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Several pilots who fly planes for Amazon Air said they thought an accident was inevitable.
The rapid growth of Amazon's air-cargo empire, coupled with low pay, has led to inexperienced pilots in the cockpit, veteran pilots said, adding that it could lead to safety problems. The pilots described difficulties in attracting experienced pilots, training they considered shoddy, experience with fatigue, plummeting morale, and pay that's considerably lower than at other cargo carriers. (www.businessinsider.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
So one pilot had 11,000 flight hours, the other had 5,000 (1,800 hours between the two on the B767), and the story is about how inexperienced pilots are inevitably going to cause a crash?? Seems legit...
I agree with your point. A friend and former colleague flies 757s and 767s all over North and South America. He said the quality and skills of the new pilots is not sufficient. People with 500 hundred hours on the wet ink on their licenses are simply not prepared to handle a 400 thousand pound aircraft. That's why we are having these accidents. I remember when you needed 1000 hours twin time before anyone would look at you.
so can a pilot with 11,000 hours fly a 400,000# airplane? Seems like you contradict your own comment by not acknowledging what you are responding to . . . .
depends on which pilot is flying the plane, and since the older voice was communicating from the start and the younger voice was last heard communicating and sounded stressed one could come to the conclusion that the captain had taken the controls, but maybe too late and could not recover from the dive.
Business Insider is a left wing organization, with questionable motives.
LOL, a “left wing organization” ......American media has 1 motive, to generate ad sales.....
I hate businessinsider.com. Always generating click bait type stuff.