USA Today’s lack of understanding regarding aviation has become another sensationalized story that does nothing other than scare the flying public. In this case, the headline is “Pilots in crashes had multiple failed tests“, and the story states that in most of the major regional airline accidents in the last 10 years, at least one of the pilots had not passed multiple of what USA Today simplistically calls “tests”.
This USA Today article makes no more sense than suggesting that because at least one pilot in each of these accidents was a male (a good bet considering airline pilot demographics), males are inherently unsafe pilots.
Posted by brianflys 
