Plane Answers: The Frontline episode regional airlines don't want you to see

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2-09-2010 @ 10:17PM

Mark said...

Kent--I just watched the full Frontline episode and came away a bit disturbed. Sadly, I think most Americans are blissfully ignorant of the realities faced by employees in the airline industry. What is even more disturbing is that the Frontline episode didn't make clear whether Colgan has ever met the safety standards it promised to attain--and is required to attain, yet it is still flying. I'm not clear on this point. If anything we need to get the word out and we need to improve regulation and also be willing to pay more. Will it take more accidents like Continental 3407 to move the public to action? I'm moved to write to my representatives in Congress to make mainline carriers jointly responsible for the regionals the sell tickets for as well as have higher standards for pilot experience/pay.

2-11-2010 @ 11:27AM

Can't Trust Frontline said...

Why is Mark's comment so faded that it is barely readable? Maybe because he doesn't agree with the Frontline conclusion, and therefore the blogger's conclusion?

Thre was so much spin in that Frontline report that people should be dizzy from watching it. Using 'experts' such as a plaintiff's attorney, slanting questions in a way that were seemed to be intended to make one side's point of view better than the others, interviewing a couple of pilots who seemed to have axes to grind, cueing in music during interviews that clearly seems intended to influence your gut reaction to somthing, Miles O'Brien's (the reporter for Frontline) demeanor changing depending on who he was interviewing, and on and on and on. This wasn't a fact-based report; it was meant to garner attention and ratings.

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