Pilot Records Database on Slow Track Despite Colgan Air Crash Findings
Photo Credit: The FAA is working on building an electronic pilot records database to be used by airlines in the hiring process. Pictured is an American Airlines pilot using an iPad in the cockpit. American Airlines
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Creating a pilot records database out of airline employment records that currently exist on everything from Excel spreadsheets to tattered paper files and PDFs could be more difficult to get together than a certain federal government healthcare insurance website.
Lorin Maurer sat in seat 3A on Colgan Air Flight 3407 on February 12, 2009, and was en route to Buffalo, New York, after taking off from Newark Airport to celebrate the wedding of her boyfriend's brother on Valentines Day, two days later.
Maurer, who had just turned 30 and worked in Princeton University's athletic department getting grants for athletes, never made it to the wedding, recalls her father, Scott Maurer.
"Lorin's goal was to some day be a Division 1 athletic director and sadly that never occurred," Scott Maurer says.
Lorin Maurer died in the Flight 3407 crash, as did all the other 44 other passengers, two pilots, two flight attendants, and one person on the ground.
Among the issues that the National Transportation Safety Board raised in its investigation of the crash were the adequacy of pilot training at Colgan Air, and a lack of full disclosure pertaining to Captain Marvin Renslow's pilot training records.
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