Pilot in Fatal Atlas Crash Had Repeated Flight-Test Failures

I know potential employers are limited in questions they can ask of former employers, but wouldn't test results and certifications be something a potential employer is allowed to investigate?

Pilots PRIA applications give companies permission to investigate backgrounds and employers.. these 2 failed companies would have come up if checks were done correctly..

Shame for all concerned

left two companies due to not being able to complete the training... red flag...

spatial diorientation was supposed to be introduced, experienced, and dealt with in primary instrument training. The feeling that my head says one thing and my eyes reading the gages says another thing- that conflict was part of training, and the solution to that feeling was another part of training. BEleive the gages- your head is not telling you truth: that is what this co-pilot did not seem to get then or when he help crash the cargo jet.

Repeat after me. "My airplane."

The full NTSB docket of the released information can be found at https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20191219.aspx

As one instructor said to me, “Hours only matter when you learn from them. Some pilots have one hour of experience, repeated 1,500 times...”

But, but, but......The Pilots Family is suing Atlas Air & Amazon for failure to properly train him...

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-atlas-air-fatal-crash-pilots-sue-2019-9

this toxic co-pilot did not belong in a serious setting in actual instrument conditions. How he made it through the hiring process is a mystery. How he made it through simulator training is a mystery. A fair question occurs: how many more of this quality of pilot are in the system?

hence the "kinda poor journalism"

The NY Post is reporting on the co-pilots final words:

"“Oh Lord, have mercy on myself,” Aska said seconds before impact as Archuleta yells for the pilots to pull up.

“Lord, you have my soul,” Aska then says right before the plane slams into the marshy bay, scattering packages and debris across a wide swath."

This report sounds like a bunch of lies...

Kinda poor journalism, jumping too early to conclusions, but it is broadly true about the co-pilot's career, and certainly that FDR data looks pretty damning to the FO, especially the split elevator even before they left the clouds

Wow! Unprepared copilot?! Come on! Companies hired pilots that didn`t passed his/her Failure tests?!

We have all observed pilots that were deficient, and didn’t want in our airspace, but how one progresses this far is very worrisome. On the other hand, one of the best pilots I have know could not get an airline job due to his certificate of demonstrated ability due to defective color vision. I understand his frustration, I have that same restriction, but in 50:years of buying and 7,500 hours it never effected my performance. No failures, busted checkrides, or violations, still I was considered unqualified for the airlines.

Seyed Kamal Bakhshi