[Magnum44]

She had 1,422 hours of flying total, which is below the Federal Aviation Administration minimum to be a commercial pilot.

Not exactly. You can be a commercial pilot with far less. (used to be 250 if I recall). You have to have 1500 (or thats the number it used to be) for ATP.

As a simple commercial pilot, you can fly for hire, up to 20 seat total (yourself, any crew, and passengers). As an ATP, you can fly the big boys.

[Ex-Con777]

You are technically correct. This whole report is still premature. Until the order of occurrence is finalized, there are still questions.

My initial observation looked like a gear collapse. Now we know it collapsed. The question is did the touchdown cause the collapse or did the gear fail causing the crash.

I’ve lived through some really hard touchdowns. That one didn’t appear to be as bad as some. Planes are tougher than that.

EC

[AlaskaErik]

She had 1,422 hours of flying total, which is below the Federal Aviation Administration minimum to be a commercial pilot.

Not exactly. You can be a commercial pilot with far less. (used to be 250 if I recall). You have to have 1500 (or thats the number it used to be) for ATP.

Not exactly. If you graduate from an approved aviation program, which she did, you can fly right seat with less than 1500 hours.