Flying Lessons
It’s no secret that the crash of Flight 3407 may have been weather related. Recordings reveal that Capt. Marvin Renslow and copilot Rebecca Shaw both commented on the plane’s ice buildup, thus activating the plane’s de-icing system. According to USA Today, the NTSB warned the FAA that icing prevention rules aren’t always adequate:
In response, the FAA mandated that newly designed aircraft receive improved testing in icing conditions. But the agency has not required that existing models receive the new testing.
Several other icing-related recommendations by the NTSB have not been acted on by the FAA. And it seems that icing-related recommendations weren’t the only ones to fall by the wayside. A 1999 recommendation concerning the threat of birds on runways has yet to be enacted by the FAA.
Certainly, we can’t change the past, but can’t we demand answers about the FAA’s role in determining safety standards for our friendly skies? If we do, perhaps we can help prevent the next Flight 3407 or 1549.
John J. Tormey III, Esq. said on February 28, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Justice For The Clarence Center 50 – FIRE FAA’s Lynne Osmus and Hank Krakowski
Photos and biographies of the aircrash victims, links, and the full text of this message, can be found at:
http://indictsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/02/justice-for-clarence-50.html
America continues to learn that the victims of the Clarence Center aviation disaster were great people.
But one example:
The late “Dawn Monachino of Clarence typically drove 10 hours round-trip to Pennsylvania, every two weeks, to be with her mother, who has Alzheimer’s disease”.
http://www.buffalonews.com/516/story/581786.html
Dawn was a hero. So were her fellow passengers. They died to make our air travel safer. But they should not have been taken from us.
Quiet Rockland extends thoughts, sympathies, and prayers to families and friends of the victims of the horrible airplane crash which occurred near Buffalo, New York in the nearby hamlet of Clarence Center, Continental (Connections) Flight #3407, on Friday, February 13, 2009. The crash of Flight #3407 was but part of the legacy of harmful malfeasance rendered to us by now-exited failed Acting FAA Administrator Robert Allan (“Bobby”) Sturgell, now-exited failed FAA “Safety Officer” Nicholas Sabatini - and still-in-office FAA COO Hank Krakowski and Acting FAA Administrator Lynne A. (Dobler) Osmus.
The victims of the Flight #3407 crash were kind and decent people, with hopes and dreams. None of them deserved to die at the hands of malicious bureaucrats. We again call upon the President, USDOT Secretary LaHood, and Congress, to immediately remove Lynne Osmus and Hank Krakowski from FAA and from all other government work, permanently. We again call upon President, USDOT Secretary LaHood, and Congress, to now give FAA the top-to-bottom clean-out of other FAA personnel recommended by Congressman Oberstar last year, before Flight #3407 ever happened. If the clean-out of FAA had happened already, the crash of Flight #3407 may not have happened. Finally, we want a Congressional investigation into the circumstances of the timing of the hasty departure announcement by NTSB Member Steven R. Chealander, which announcement occurred but a week after he commenced work on the February 13 Flight #3407 crash. We want answers. We want justice. We want a new FAA.
Photos and biographies of the Clarence Center crash victims, and the full text of this message, can be found at:
http://indictsturgell.blogspot.com/2009/02/justice-for-clarence-50.html
Peter Jones said on March 03, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Ms. Ripley, you mention FAA icing prevention rules above in this blog item, but it’s my understanding that the bladders on this airplane’s wings and propellers are not designed to prevent icing, they are designed to be anti-icing. The difference is, prevention keeps icing from happening, anti requires icing to first happen so that it can then be removed. Let me reaffirm though, to date the Captain and First Officer have been shown to have been within FAA guidelines.