Taking Wing

Has it really been a full month since I posted anything to this blog? Whoops. Dawn and I just got back from a two week trip to Norway (with ...

"Captain Renslow and First Officer Shaw did know what to do, had repeatedly demonstrated they knew what to do, but did not do it."...

At 22:16:27.4 EST on February 12th, 2009, the crew of Colgan 3407 experienced a stick shaker activation. They were hardly the first crew to ...

Beep! "Three thousand for two thousand." It was a dark night; the landing lights lit up the thick layer of clouds slipping rapidly...

By now you've likely heard the news accounts of Colgan 3407's last minutes as captured by the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR). The NTSB...

Since I wrote the post about Colgan 3407 three months ago, more details about the events of that tragic flight have come to light. They hav...

Sigh . Apparently I have a hidden talent for wrecking my laptop computers in unique and spectacular ways. In late 2007  I reversed the polar...