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The third day of the National Transportation Safety Board hearings into the crash of Continental Connection 3407 in Buffalo in February was covered by NBC and ABC. Both switched from the particular circumstances of the fatal crash to the general implications for the airline industry. "Continental Airlines used regional carrier Colgan Air for its Newark-to-Buffalo flight. Continental is not alone. Most of the major airlines outsource regional flights to local carriers." And the upshot may be a two-tier system, NBC's Tom Costello worried. For ABC's A Closer Look, Lisa Stark ticked off disparities in training, crew fatigue, pay--co-pilot Rebecca Shaw's salary was "comparable to that of a crossing guard"--and danger between the majors and the regionals. Regional carriers account for one quarter of all passengers yet "in the last seven years more than 150 people have lost their lives in regional airline accidents compared to just one person in a major airline crash."
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