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Colgan Air Flight 3407 (marketed as Continental Connection Flight 3407) was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York on February 12, 2009. Colgan Air staffed and maintained the aircraft used on the flight that was scheduled, marketed, and sold by Continental Airlines under its Continental Connection brand.
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All 67 people on board the two aircraft were killed in the crash (64 on the airliner, 3 on the helicopter). The accident was the first fatal crash involving a major U.S. airline since Colgan Air Flight 3407 on February 12, 2009, and the deadliest since American Airlines Flight 587 on November 12, 2001.
Colgan Air Flight 3407, a flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York, stalled and crashed during landing approach near Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Feb. 12, 2009. The plane ...
Wednesday evening’s incident is the U.S.’ first major commercial aviation incident in 16 years, following the Buffalo crash in 2009, which killed 49 aboard Colgan Air flight 3407 and one on ...
Colgan Air was a regional airline in the United States that operated from 1965 until 2012, when it became a subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines Corp. The initial headquarters of Colgan Air was in Manassas, Virginia until 2010, and then Memphis, Tennessee until closure in 2012. Colgan Air operated for Continental Express/United Express, and US ...
But this marks the first major commercial plane crash in the US since 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed over Buffalo, New York, killing 49 on board and one person on the ground.
During the investigation of latent failure, investigators have three levels to assess. The first is the factor that directly affects the operator's behavior: precondition (fatigue and illness). On February 12, 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407, a Bombardier DHC-8-400 was on