Miles O'Brien nails it: Colgan crash and deregulation

In his usual unflinching way, veteran reporter and pilot Miles O’Brien takes a hard look at the causes of Colgan/Continental Flight 3407 that crashed in Buffalo, New York.

Here is an excerpt:

When the wreckage of Colgan/Continental Flight 3407 was still smoldering near Buffalo, I blogged that aircraft icing was a likely potential cause of the crash. Turns out, it was just icing on the cake - a cake that has been in the oven for more than thirty years now.

It was October 24, 1978 when President Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act.

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