CO-PILOT WAS PAID JUST 16G reports on the latest outrage from the airline industry - that the co-pilot Rebecca Show of the doomed Colgan Flight 3407 was paid less than many minimum wage type workers while being entrusted with the lives of many. This is just the tip of the iceberg of abuses by Colgan Air - which Continental shifted its short carrier business to, fatally as was revealed in a second day of NTSB testimony.
Among the revelations:
* Co-pilot Rebecca Shaw was paid $16,254 a year, lived with her parents in a Seattle suburb and worked part time in a coffee shop. She'd gone 36 hours without proper bed rest prior to the fatal flight.
* Capt. Marvin Renslow earned $55,000 a year. He commuted from Tampa on Feb. 9 and was in the middle of a two-day assignment. It is unclear where Renslow slept the night before the fatal flight, but on Feb. 12, he checked in at Newark at 3:30 a.m., then idled in the break room.
* Renslow did not tell Colgan about his previous flight check failures.
* There are no checks on preflight pilot fatigue, nor are proper sleeping areas provided.
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