May 15th, 2009 - MSNBC
The mother and husband of the co-pilot of the commuter plane that crashed in Buffalo say Rebecca Shaw was neither tired nor sick, as has been suggested during hearings into the accident that claimed the lives of 49 aboard the plane and one person on the ground.
“It’s completely untrue,” Troy Shaw, Shaw's husband, told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira Friday in New York.
“Rebecca was a professional pilot who took her job extremely seriously. She loved what she was doing, and she ... and the captain would never have stepped into that cockpit if they didn’t feel completely comfortable that they were going to make it to their destination,” Troy Shaw said.
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4:50Last 10 radio contacts with Flight 3407 co-pilot Rebecca Shaw before it crashed.
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