For three and a half minutes on the night of Oct. 14, 2004, Capt. Jesse Rhodes and First Officer Peter Cesarz were on top of the world. The two Pinnacle Airlines pilots had pushed their twin-engine, ...

INITIALLY, WHAT WAS known about Northwest Airlink Flight 3701 was sad, but straightforward. The Bombardier CL-600-2B19 RJ was on a nighttime non-revenue positioning flight from Little Rock (LIT) to ...

Voice transcript shows crew of Bombardier CRJ200 decided to climb to 41,000ft on repositioning flight ‘for fun' An apparent partial transcript of cockpit voice recorder data from the 14 October 2004 ...

An aerodynamic stall at 41,000ft (12,470m) was followed by the almost simultaneous shutdown of both engines on the Pinnacle Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 that crashed on 14 October in Jefferson City, ...

The NTSB is calling for improved jet transition training and awareness of engine core lock--a little-known phenomenon cited as a contributing factor in the crash of Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701. At a ...