One staggering revelation after another tumbled out during the National Transportation Safety Board's three-day hearing into the deadly crash of a commuter plane operated by Colgan Air near Buffalo, N.Y., in February.

What is more disturbing? That the pilot, Capt. Marvin Renslow, had failed five flight tests over five years? Or that Renslow had never had hands-on flight simulator training on the "stick-pusher" emergency system, the system he disastrously mishandled in the cri ...

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