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The National Transportation Safety Board is gearing up for hearings into February's commuter plane crash in suburban Buffalo that killed all 50 on board and all three newscasts had a reporter file a preview. The flight was Continental Connection 3407 but all three reporters identified it as being operated by Colgan Air, sparing Continental Airlines any tarnish. "A lot of testimony about human error is expected," NBC's Peter Alexander told us from the upstate New York crash site. In the crosshairs is Marvin Renslow, the plane's dead pilot, who flunked several flight tests, known as check rides. He was inexperienced in the cockpit of the Dash 8 turboprop and had never practiced handling a stall warning in a flight simulator.
ABC's Lisa Stark and CBS' Nancy Cordes covered the story from Washington. Stated Cordes: "Colgan Air points out its training regimen was examined and approved by the FAA. NTSB sources say the FAA's standards will be a prime focus at the hearings." Stark declared that "experts" want to know: "Are these issues unique to Colgan Air? Or are they symptoms of a broader problem with the regional airlines that millions of Americans fly?"
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