Families encourage overhaul of pilot training

Families encourage overhaul of pilot training

WASHINGTON (AP) - Prodded by the families of people killed in a regional airline crash, federal officials issued significantly tougher training requirements for pilots today. One of the most important changes requires airlines to provide better training on how to prevent and recover from an aerodynamic stall, in which a plane slows to the point that it loses lift. That was what happened to Continental Express Flight 3407, which crashed on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport in western New York on Feb. 12, 2009, killing all 49 people aboard and a man on the ground.