A Bombardier Q400 similar to the aircraft involved in the accident
Accident
Date
February 12, 2009 (2009-02-12)
Summary
Stalled during landing approach[1]
Site
Clarence Center, New York 43°00′42″N78°38′21″W / 43.0116°N 78.6391°W / 43.0116; -78.6391
Total fatalities
50
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Bombardier Q400
Operator
Colgan Air (operating as Continental Connection)
IATA flight No.
9L3407
ICAO flight No.
CJC3407
Call sign
COLGAN 3407
Registration
N200WQ
Flight origin
Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, New Jersey
Destination
Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Buffalo, New York
Occupants
49
Passengers
45
Crew
4
Fatalities
49
Survivors
0
Ground casualties
Ground fatalities
1
Ground injuries
4
Colgan Air Flight 3407 (marketed as Continental Connection Flight 3407) was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey, US to Buffalo, New York, US 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. The aircraft, a Bombardier Q400, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover and crashed into a house at 6038 Long Street in Clarence Center, New York at 10:17 pm EST (03:17 UTC), killing all 49 passengers and crew on board, as well as one person inside the house.[2]
The National Transportation Safety Board conducted the accident investigation and published a final report on February 2, 2010 that identified the probable cause as the pilots' inappropriate response to stall warnings.[3][4][5]
Captain Marvin Renslow, 47, of Lutz, Florida was the pilot in command, and Rebecca Lynne Shaw, 24, of Maple Valley, Washington served as the first officer.
Families of the accident victims lobbied the U.S. Congress to enact more stringent regulations for regional carriers and to improve the scrutiny of safe operating procedures and the working conditions of pilots. The Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administrative Extension Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–216) required some of these regulation changes.[6]
At that time of the crash, it was the deadliest aviation disaster involving the Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 until the crash of US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 in 2018.[1]
^ abRanter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident de Havilland Canada DHC-8-402Q Dash 8 N200WQ Buffalo Niagara International Airport, NY (BUF)". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
^"Update on NTSB investigation into crash of Colgan Air Dash-8 near Buffalo, New York" (Press release). National Transportation Safety Board. March 25, 2009. The data indicate a likely separation of the airflow over the wing and ensuing roll two seconds after the stick shaker activated while the aircraft was slowing through 125 knots, and while at a flight load of 1.42 Gs. The predicted stall speed at a load factor of 1 G would be about 105 knots. Note: The predicted stall speed for this aircraft at a flight load of 1.42 Gs would be about 125 kt, which is arrived at by multiplying 105 kt (the predicted stall speed at 1 G) by 1.19164 (the square root of the flight load in Gs).
^Cite error: The named reference ntsb/aar-10/01 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"'We Shouldn't Stop Flying.' What to Make of the Southwest Plane Accident That Shattered a Remarkable U.S. Safety Record". Fortune. April 18, 2018.
^"How One Crash 10 Years Ago Helped Keep 90 Million Flights Safe (Paid Article)". Bloomberg.com. February 12, 2019. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
^"Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010". LegiScan. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
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