I urge FAA Administrator Babbitt to put in place a rule that is scientifically-based and takes into consideration the demands facing today's pilots.

I want the FAA to work, I want our government to work, and I want Ms. Hersman's most-wanted list not to be ignored.

You make mistakes when you are either ill trained or when you are tired. You make mistakes.

Well, your recommendations say, 'Stick-pusher training was not consistently provided to pilots of the Q-400s, nor was it required by the FAA.'

Have you evaluated whether that is a unique condition, again, to this particular carrier in this circumstance, or is this something that may be a problem across commuter carriers?

I was stunned that you have eight commercial air carriers that are--that were, last summer, picking up passengers and flying passengers around the country, that would have had no remedial training program for pilots, of any type.

It has become clear to me that Congress and the industry needs to take major steps to ensure that there is indeed one level of safety throughout the entire commercial aviation industry.

The thing that troubles me is, we now have done an unbelievable inspection of what happened in that cockpit of one airplane taking one flight, and it appears to me to have about six or eight very serious problems.

But, let me put up--these are the Colgan air pilots commuting to the Newark base.

You'd better believe we would.

How prevalent is it to find people spending all night in a crew room, without a bed, before a flight?

I mean, the FAA has to make sure that carriers are doing what the FAA wants them to do.