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Setting, not hands on. >> 15 minutes is all they are asking out of the training program. they didn't 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. once behind the controls they violated the sterile cockpit rule. >> during take offs and approach to ...

Spent the night not in a hotel or in beds but in a crew lounge, against colgan policy. once behind the controls they violated thest 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 aircraft to get to that point where it was a jarring moment that caused them to react. >> the crash sparked enough debate that in the summer of 2010 the president signs a bill passed by congress requiring commercial pilots have a minimum...

Yank it back. natural reaction is what he did because he didn't 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 aircraft to get to that point where it was a jarring moment that caused them to react. >> the crash sparke...

It matters. our passengers deserve better. >> reporter: two years ago this week a continental regional jet from newark operated by colgan air crashed on approach to buffalo, killing 50 people. neither the pilot nor first officer slept in a bed the night before the flight. they commuted to newark from florida to washington state. yawns could be heard on the cockpit voice recorder. >> we had a captain who had actually been overnighting in the crew lounge at newark airport for two of the previous three nights. >> reporter: the chair of the national transportation safety board, deborah hersman, sa...

We've also seen certainly issues regarding the pilot background check. he had failed repeated check rides, but his employer, colgan air, didn't know about all those failures, so the faa has been pushing for the airlines to make all the background information clear. two-thirds of the airlines have agreed to do so thus far. the faa is pushing for a new law in that regard. >> besides that, what else is the faa doing in light of all of this? >> reporter: well, they have had a committee looking into the issue of pilot fatigue. remember the pilot had been seen, the captain had been seen napping in t...