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School. the alarm is going off, the stick is pulled out of your hands. and the natural reaction is to take it and yank it back. the natural action is what he did, because he has never been trained. >> the ntsb report also focuses on crew fatigue. both the captain and co-pilot spent the night not in a hotel or their own beds, but instead in a crew lounge, against colgan policy. once behind the controls, they violated the sterile cockpit rule, which may have been the cause of distraction. >> durin...

Hands, the natural reaction is to take and yank it back. the natural action is what he did. he has never been trained. >> the ntsb report also focuses on crew fatigue. both the captain and co-pilot spent the night not in a hotel or in their own beds, but instead in a crew lounge, against colgan policy. once behind the controls they violated the sterile cockpit rule which may have been the cause of their distraction. >> during takeoffs and approach to landings, the pilot and co-pilot can talk abo...

Setting, not hands on. >> 15 minutes is all they are asking out of the training program. they didnt even do that. they talked about it in ground school. the alarm is going off, the stick is pulled out of your hanç and the natural reaction is to take it and yank it ck. the natural action is what he did. he has never been trained. >> the ntsb report also focuses on crew fatigue. both the captain and co-pilot spent the night not in a hotel or in beds but in a crew lounge, against colgan policy. on...

Hours of experience. what happens is when people get out of flight school, and they have their required government ratings, they then move on to the regionals because that is who hires them. >> while major airlines pay better they usually demand that new hires have 1500 flight hours or more. further blame could lie with how colgan trained its pilots on the stall protection system. although it satisfied faa standards, some of the training was done solely in a classroom setting, not hands on. >> 1...

Yank it back. natural reaction is what he did because he didnt have the training. >> the ntsb report also focuses on crew fatigue. both the captain and co-pilot spent the night in a crew lounge, against colgan policy. once behind the controls, they violated the sterile cockpit rule. >> during take offs and approach to landings, the pilot and co-pilot can talk about nothing but the flight at hand. >> the idle conversation that was going on seems to have distracted them long enough for the aircraf...

Black hole, theyre bored, abor come leads to fatigue. >> what needs to be done, do you think, for flight crews? do you think that that needs to be man dated to fight crew fatigue as well? >> one of the things about pilots that we have been studying this for a long time. on international flights, crews are supplemented so youll have a captain and a first officer who start the flight, the captain will leaf the flight deck to get rest, theyll bring in a supplemented pilot to

The trip goes that much of better. it really does. >> i want to ask you about these pilot fatigue discussions that are taking place in washington, d.c. this week. air traffic controllers, their hours also being changed in terms of how long a shift can go, and how long in between shifts. what needs to be done for flight crews? do you think shifts need to be mandated to prevent crew fatigue? >> absolutely. i know that in my situation, you know, flying 20 years, i watched my minimum rest requiremen...

Lot of anger and frustration that this has gone on, that they were so incompetent up there. among the ntsbs findings, crew fatigue, a lack of training, lack of professionalism and maturity, a lack of experience and basic skills all contributed to the crash. >> and, unfortunately, its taken 50 more lives for us to focus additional attention on these issues that have not been addressed. >> reporter: today, colgan air insisted the crew was trained properly, but "we cannot speculate on why they didn...