Bombardier Dash 8/Q-400, Brief focus on Dash-8 as gleaned from former RCF Pilot. Options

[Graeme]

I have a particular interest in the Bombardier aircraft that came down on Friday 12th February on Buffalo NYC, that is Continental 3407.

I would like a focussed thread to be opened and kept open on this crash & this aircraft since it caused the death of a leading personality in The real 9/11-Truth Movement, as you probably are willing to accept. I believe this crash must, for me personally be in reciept of as much attention as the hijacked 9/11 Aircraft. That's IMHO.

On 3rd March I spoke for ~40 minutes to a former RCF (Royal Canadian Airforce) Pilot from Kamloops B.C., who had some experience of Bombardier (a Canadiancompany). I can't recall if he said he'd flown in a Dash 8 but I suspect that was the Lockheed Hercules.

He was surprised to hear that the stories of Ice-Causing the Crash didn't fit the facts of the High Spec anti-ice features of this particular aircraft.

He said that Bombardier was originally manufacturing in Montreal and they used to build in their early days the 'Skidoo' or 'Snowmobile'; that would be in the mid-1970's.

It seems the NTSB enquiry is veering towards a 'Pilot's Training' angle on this Crash, as the main contributory cause for the Nose Stall. However, that doesn't address our NO-TRANSPODERS, NO-SQUARKS, and NO-TELECOMMS issues. SO all these other factors remaining the same, YOU KNOW I CAN'T accept the official story yet.
Crash Probe Turns to Pilot Training
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123500459726218073.html
The Wall Street Journal.

Come on guys, I look up to you Pilot types (pun intended) & I lost someone I had a bunch invested in on this crash and I want to know one way or the other.

What do people know lately regarding Colgan/Continental 3407?

This post has been edited by Graeme: Mar 13 2009, 06:46 PM