Renslow failed several flight checks when getting his pilot's license, but failed to disclose them all to Colgan Air on his application. Shaw made $22,000 a year and lived with her parents.

Flight 3407’s co-pilot, Rebecca Shaw, had misprogrammed an important switch on the controls of the Q400. After a stall warning, pilot Marvin Renslow reacted in exactly the wrong fashion and, in ...