“For everyone at Endeavor Air and Delta, nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and our people,” Durrant said.
Authorities have not released the identities of the cockpit crew. Delta has said the captain, hired in October 2007, has worked as duty captain and in pilot training and flight safety roles.
The first officer completed her flight training in April after being hired in January 2024 and has flown for Endeavor since then, exceeding the mandatory federal minimum standards.
Before the crash, the first officer had more than 1,422 hours of total flight time experience, nearly 419 of them spent on the CRJ-900, the most common plane in Endeavor Air’s fleet. She was on the fifth day of a five-day work cycle, according to the report, and started her day flying from Cleveland, Ohio, to MSP.
She conducted three round-trip flights at Toronto Pearson in the 30 days before the crash.
Delta CEO Ed Bastian has defended the company’s pilots, saying there is “one level of safety at Delta” among its mainline and regional pilots.
