CRJ crash at KLEX:

§ 121.443 Pilot in command qualification: Route and
airports.
(a) Each certificate holder shall provide a system
acceptable to the Administrator for disseminating the
information required by paragraph (b) of this section to the
pilot in command and appropriate flight operation personnel.
The system must also provide an acceptable means for showing
compliance with §121.445.

(b) No certificate holder may use any person, nor may any
person serve, as pilot in command unless the certificate
holder has provided that person current information
concerning the following subjects pertinent to the areas
over which that person is to serve, and to each airport and
terminal area into which that person is to operate, and
ensures that that person has adequate knowledge of, and the
ability to use, the information:

(1) Weather characteristics appropriate to the season.

(2) Navigation facilities.

(3) Communication procedures, including airport visual aids.

(4) Kinds of terrain and obstructions.

(5) Minimum safe flight levels.

(6) En route and terminal area arrival and departure
procedures, holding procedures and authorized instrument
approach procedures for the airports involved.

(7) Congested areas and physical layout of each airport in
the terminal area in which the pilot will operate.

(8) Notices to Airmen.

[Doc. No. 17897, 45 FR 41594, June 19, 1980; Amdt. 121-159,
45 FR 43154, June 26, 1980]



Note paragraph b and b7.

§ 121.542 Flight crewmember duties.
(a) No certificate holder shall require, nor may any flight
crewmember perform, any duties during a critical phase of
flight except those duties required for the safe operation
of the aircraft. Duties such as company required calls made
for such nonsafety related purposes as ordering galley
supplies and confirming passenger connections, announcements
made to passengers promoting the air carrier or pointing out
sights of interest, and filling out company payroll and
related records are not required for the safe operation of
the aircraft.

(b) No flight crewmember may engage in, nor may any pilot in
command permit, any activity during a critical phase of
flight which could distract any flight crewmember from the
performance of his or her duties or which could interfere in
any way with the proper conduct of those duties. Activities
such as eating meals, engaging in nonessential conversations
within the cockpit and nonessential communications between
the cabin and cockpit crews, and reading publications not
related to the proper conduct of the flight are not required
for the safe operation of the aircraft.

(c) For the purposes of this section, critical phases of
flight includes all ground operations involving taxi,
takeoff and landing, and all other flight operations
conducted below 10,000 feet, except cruise flight.

Note: Taxi is defined as "movement of an airplane under its
own power on the surface of an airport."

[Doc. No. 20661, 46 FR 5502, Jan. 19, 1981]





"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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|
| "Dice" wrote:
|
| Before you start blaming the crew, look at how the
plane would taxi from
| the terminal building on taxiway alpha to the departure
end of either 22
| or 26.
| http://avn.faa.gov/d-tpp/0608/00697AD.PDF
|
| A simple heading check before throttle up would have
caught the error. I
| wonder if that is on the checklist.
|
| Looking at the diagram, can you imagine the confusing
array of signage
| that you'd have to negotiate to figure out taxiing from
the terminal
| whether you'd be at the departure end of 22 or 26?
|
| Yes, I can. It would probably prompt me to extra caution.
Were these
| pilots regulars at this airport, or newbies?
|
| One sign that probably should have been at the departure
end of 26 and
| wasn't: "Caution, short runway, no jets"
|
|
| It wouldn't be surprising to see this accident produce
some such regulation.
|
| --
| Dan
| C172RG at BFM
|
|