(Source: Business Insider, March 3, 2020)
NEW YORK — Amtrak said Monday that it hired William J. Flynn, former chief executive of cargo and charter airline Atlas Air, to be its next CEO. In February 2019, a Boeing 767 jet flown by Atlas Air crashed while approaching Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Atlas Flight 3591 was operating under contract with Amazon as an Amazon Air flight. Both pilots, along with a Mesa Airlines pilot who was riding in the jumpseat, were killed. In the aftermath of the crash, numerous systemic safety concerns emerged, raised by current and former pilots, some of which have been corroborated by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Pilots and union leaders raised additional concerns surrounding shoddy training standards, fatigue and overwork, poor morale, and below-industry pay as contributing to safety risks. In March, a month after the crash, Flynn told Business Insider in a statement that the complaints were “misleading and inaccurate, and inappropriately connect the Flight 3591 tragedy with ongoing contract negotiations.”
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