Fred Harteis News Articles - More than a year before Colgan Air crashed a twin-engine turboprop on approach to Buffalo, Christopher J. Monteleon told his superiors at the Federal Aviation Administration that the airline was going to have trouble flying that model. As an F.A.A. inspector, Mr. Monteleon was in the cockpit when the airline got its first such plane, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, and put it through a series of test flights.
Three times, he said, the pilots flew the airplane faster than the manufacturer’s specifications allowed, ... more »

