The Department of Transportation's internal watchdog says there is a two-tiered standard for safety when it comes to airlines: one for the majors, and a different, and lower standard, for the regionals.
The Transportation inspector general criticized the Federal Aviation Administration's response to the crash of Flight 3407 on Thursday morning, during a house aviation sub-committee hearing.
The head of a federal safety panel says the pilots of a regional airliner that crashed outside Buffalo nearly a year ago made critical errors showing "complacency and confusion that resulted in catastrophe."