FAA seeks dramatic revamp of pilot training

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday proposed a dramatic revamping of airline pilot and crew training, a move that would turn many of the lessons learned from the February 2009 plane crash in Clarence Center into law.Under the FAA proposal, for the first time, pilots would have to be trained to recover from the kind of stall that sent Continental Connection Flight 3407 plummeting into a house, killing 50 people.They would have to be familiar with the stall-recovery

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