The government requires 1,500 hours of flight time before serving as first officer as an airliner. Some pilots and industry ...

DALLAS — Pilots and co-pilots for smaller, feeder airlines such as Colgan Air generally earn lower salaries and start with less experience than their counterparts at the bigger mainline carriers. The ...

Just call him "Wrong-Way Colgan." A pilot for Colgan Air, which operated the Continental Connection flight that crashed in Clarence Center due to pilot error in 2009 ...

Mike Loftus came here in pain, sad over the death of his daughter Madeline, who he said was "as nice as she is pretty." He leaves still hurting, but now he's also angry, having heard that many experts ...

Sleep deprivation cited as a factor in Continental 3407 crash that killed 50. Feb. 8, 2011 — -- Commuter airline pilots continue to fly while dangerously fatigued because the government and the ...

Hearings begin today in the case of Continental flight 3407, the Q400 aircraft which crashed on landing in Buffalo earlier this year. Remember how everyone jumped on the idea that this was caused by ...