Plane Answers: NTSB glosses over fatigue in the Colgan crash {Gadling}

Feb 8th 2010 5:30AM Both pilots were trying to sleep in a crew lounge.Impossible. Undoubtly, they didn't want to spend the money to get a motel room for a short time. I recall being a copilot on a DC-10 and the Captain was a long distance commuter. We flew a red eye from MSP-LAX. He flew out and made no secret of the fact that I was going to fly back and he was going to sleep. He made a nest out of pillows & blankets and slept the whole way. Before I could contact professional standards the lead Flight Attendant turned him in to the Chief Pilot.