Focusing on Pilots

" So would you get on the plane if you -- the pilots were overworked and underpaid. With that in mind lawmakers and Capitol Hill are debating new legislation which really -- drastically change airline safety and pilot training rules. The move in response of that crash back in February of the Colgan Air flight 34 of seven. It was flying under code share agreement with the with continental when it crashed outside of buffalo all 49 people on board died along one person on the ground. The National Transportation Safety Board later blamed pilot error saying the captain Marvin -- and slow did not have the proper training. The NTSB also claimed that the first officer Rebecca Shaw had not had enough rest before the flight and she reportedly made less than 20000 dollars a year. But will the new legislation really make flying any safer. -- now is former commercial airline pilot. John with -- it. Reagan more and more regulations is that the answer."

" Yet just one correction I was a former -- Marshall pal flying cargo and corporate flights. Regulation is not war the answer here what we take a look at these actions especially what happened in buffalo and you see that the investigation revealed that the the captain. What was did not have -- treating. You have to inexperienced pilots -- one airplane OK that's the problem changing requirements from 250 hours over to fifteen -- for commercial. How trading is not the answer putting qualified people together in that. Cockpit is going to be answer Sophia -- highly qualified captain. Flying with the inexperienced -- Powell does not to be problems but when you seek to an experienced pilots in one airplane. That's where the problems are and we come into situations. The remember captain Sullenberger and as well as other captains have been very bad situations come out with tremendous results like the landing in the Hudson River. It all started -- fifty -- requirements so what was the deal with the deal was we hacked off by people in the cockpit that led to tremendous here."

" 20/20 thousand dollars a year now if you know it's -- our business when anybody gets paid if you agree to work for certain amount of money -- you've agreed to work. For certain amount of money but it's it's hard to feed yourself."

" But there's no doubt about -- because paid their -- these young kids and I was there once before you start low pay 15000 dollars a year for flying. Five days a week and all kinds of weather that's what I made my first TV job. I would fly people around right well. Here's what happens she's not there by herself she supposed to be with a qualified. Captain and from the investigation shows she was not with a qualified captain. That's where the problem so the rules that were in place would have been enough if only they file they've been around for decades and decades and people flown millions and millions of hours. In all of the problems that we don't have seen much since city Iowa and a tremendous miracle was nice but -- shouldn't be admits the field that crew did tremendous job. It's not that it's who they put the cockpit. If they start lowering and cutting the captain salaries causing them to move onto other airlines or even to other bomb places to make money. Then they're gonna make their airline -- a lot less safer. All right one view of things did say thank you."