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...revelation came during a National Transportation Safety Board investigation of a Continental DC-9 crash that killed 28 people in Denver last November. In a signed statement, Continental Captain Kenneth Watson said that on another flight a few weeks before the crash, he had conducted a test of Frank Zvonek, who later piloted the ill-fated DC-9. "As is my common practice," said Watson, "I advised Frank that I would intentionally make several mistakes. He caught them and corrected...
...Watson's statement was intended to show that Zvonek was a good pilot, the FAA was not so much impressed as it was dismayed by the unusual training procedure. Continental said the Watson method was not approved by the company. The carrier intends to find out if any of its other pilots test one another by purposely making mistakes before taking...
...plane's wings while it waited 23 minutes between deicing and takeoff. Another possible factor: pilot inexperience. Copilot Lee Bruecher, 26, who was apparently at the craft's controls on takeoff, had only 36 1/2 hours of flight time on DC-9s. The veteran pilot, Captain Frank Zvonek, 43, had logged only 33 hours as a DC-9 captain...
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