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Continental Airlines 3407 crash - is this more proof that women shouldn't be pilots?

"The commuter plane that crashed near Buffalo was on autopilot when it went down in icy weather, indicating that the pilot may have violated federal safety recommendations and the airline's own policy for flying in such conditions, a federal official said Sunday. Steve Chealander, a National Transportation Safety Board member, said the company that operated the flight recommends pilots fly manually in icy conditions. Pilots are required to do so in severe ice." It was a female pilot and she had only been flying for one year. Probably never would have happened if an experienced man was flying the plane. More proof that women shouldn't be flying aircraft ... or doing anything else that requires being responsible for a large group of people. Here's the source for the above quoted: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hpSZzqkNMwZvX2xrejSSUOyBGCYgD96C75700

Public Comments

1. Lol, i don't think women can handle too much pressure, she probably queefed in her pants and fainted, but i hear it was an inside job since one female on board was a widow of 9/11 victim and she was gonna speak out against eh US government on how 9\11 was an inside job.
2. I have this feeling you don't do good in your relationships with women? If this doesn't get violated you may just get hate mail. At the sound of condoning women pilots there have been planes going down where the pilots were male. For this rational to work it would have to be that no male pilots did the same.
3. I think 1 year has more to do with it than gender. Used to be most pilots were ex-military with a lot of experience before taking the controls on civilian life. Also, not sure if manual control with extreme icing would have mattered. I strongly suspect the anti-icing system wasn't up to par or wasn't turned on early enough to deal with the icing conditions. Once the plane was iced up and on the way down it was over.
4. dude that is so sexist!! she wasnt that good yet, only a year's experience, and now she is unable to get more. :( besides, that was only one woman. you cannot base your opinions on an entire gender because of one woman who probably didnt realize her mistakes.
5. fuck off motherfucker im a dude but i know women are equal
6. maybe she was on her monthly cycle.
7. Using your own logic, all this proves is robots should not be pilots. As you stated the plane was on autopilot. As for the rest of your statement, it really states nothing and really is a poor attempt at trolling. I give it a 3 out of 10. On the par with a 10 - 12 year old.
8. Actually the captain of the flight was a MALE pilot. "Pinnacle Airlines, the parent company of Colgan Air, says the pilot was identified as Capt. Marvin Renslow, who joined the airline in September 2005 and had flown 3,379 hours with the carrier." So I think that your theory has been disproved; it was a man that was in charge of the plane and if you want to blame the pilots (which you really shouldn't because the official findings of what caused the crash are not in yet) you should blame the pilot with the most seniority, who in this case was a man. I don't know what your problem with woman is but to put the blame of this unfortunate crash on a female pilot who was not even in charge of the plane is ridiculous, especially because the captain was male. Woman are just as capable as men and this question is blatantly sexist.
9. Last year in March, a female copilot of a Lufthansa Airbus in Hamburg with 131 passengers on board, flying the aircraft under critical weather conditions and trying to land in Hamburg during a storm, caused a nearby-crash. The aircraft went out of control shortly before touchdown, one wing hitting the ground! In the very last second, the (male) captain, not flying till then, took over control and made a go-around just in time, preventing a disaster in the last moment ... That`s a fact, indeed !
10. I would much rather have a man flying the plane. Odds are he is ex-military with thousands of hours racked up. Not just flying a bus but fighters and hazardous missions as well.
11. First off...moron...the person flying that leg was the male captain...Rebecca was just voicing the calls to atc...she was not at the controls...she flew for only a year at COLGAN...she previously had flown and was a flight intructor....let me ask u...who was flying the plane that crashed in denver in nov...2 MALE PILOTS WITH OVER 40 YEARS EXP. BETWEEN THEM...when the information comes out about why tghe aircraft went down...you will see it had nothing to do with a man or woman...thousands of hours or military exp wouldnt have savewd that plane...and aircraft go down all the time in the military...please think and do your reserach when typing such nonsense...
12. actually the woman was the first officer, she was not the pilot. And your point is?