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This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. Colgan Air Flight 3407 Incident summary Date February 12, 2009 (2009-02-12Z) Type Under Investigation Site Clarence Center, New York. Passengers 45 Crew 4 Injuries 4 (all on the ground) Fatalities 50 (1 on ground) Survivors 0 Aircraft Colgan Air Flight 3407, marketed as Continental Connection under a codeshare agreement with Continental Airlines, was a daily U.S. commuter flight between Newark Liberty International Airport (ICAO:KEWR) in New Jersey and Buffalo Niagara International Airport (ICAO:KBUF) in New York. The Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 departed from Newark on February 12, 2009, at 9:20 p.m. EST. Shortly after the last communication by the flight crew at 10:11 p.m. (03:11, February 13 UTC), the plane crashed into a house in the northeast Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center, 6 miles (9.7 km) short of BUF's Runway 23, killing everyone on board. A total of 50 people were killed, including two pilots, two flight attendants, 45 passengers (including one off-duty pilot), and one person in the house. It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the United States since Comair Flight 191 in August 2006. Contents [hide] 1 Flight details 2 Crash 2.1 Fatalities 3 Investigation 4 Reactions 5 See also 6 References 7 External links // Flight details A Dash 8 Q400 similar to the Colgan Air Flight 3407 (9L 3407 or CJC 3407) was marketed as Continental Flight 3407 (CO 3407) under the Continental Connection brand. The flight departed at 9:20 p.m. EST,[1] en route from Newark Liberty International Airport to Buffalo Niagara International Airport. The flight was one of seven Continental flights bound for Buffalo Niagara that day, out of a total of 110 incoming and departing flights across all carriers at Buffalo.[2] The aircraft was a 74-seat Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 (Registration N200WQ) twin engine turboprop owned and operated by Colgan Air, and equipped with deicing boots. N200WQ was certified by the Federal Aviation Administration in April 2008[3] and was put into service the same month.[4] The Q400 model has been involved in 13 incidents, but the crash of Flight 3407 was the first resulting in fatalities.[4] This crash was also the first fatality on a Colgan Air passenger flight since the company was founded in 1991, though there was a previous fatal incident in August 2002 when mechanical problems caused their plane to crash outside of Manassas, Virginia, where Colgan Air is based, killing both crew members. The only prior aviation incident on a Colgan Air passenger flight occurred at LaGuardia Airport, when another plane collided with | ||||
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