The crash occurred 41 seconds after that last transmission. The plane was 3.0 mi (4.8 km) northeast of the radio beacon KLUMP (see diagram) at that time. The last radio transmission from the flight occurred when the first officer acknowledged a routine instruction to change to tower radio frequency. Two other aircraft reported icing conditions around the time of the crash. Shortly before the crash, the pilots discussed significant ice buildup on the aircraft's wings and windshield. The deicing system had been turned on 11 minutes after takeoff. The weather consisted of light snow and fog with wind of 15 knots (28 km/h 17 mph). Shortly after the flight was cleared for an instrument landing system approach to runway 23 at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, it disappeared from radar. The flight crashed (marked in red) near the locator outer marker (LOM) (identifier: "KLUMP") about five nautical miles from the threshold of Rwy 23. Crash įAA ILS/LOC approach plate to runway 23 at Buffalo Niagara International Airport (KBUF). The remaining 41 passengers, as well as the crew members, were American. Two Canadian passengers, one Chinese passenger, and one Israeli passenger were on board. : 6–11 First Officer Shaw was hired in January 2008, and had 2,244 hours, 774 of them in turbine aircraft, including the Q400.
Captain Renslow was hired in September 2005 and had accumulated 3,379 total flight hours, with 111 hours as captain on the Q400. The cabin crew consisted of two flight attendants. Ĭaptain 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. The only prior accident involving a Colgan Air passenger flight occurred at LaGuardia Airport, when another plane collided with the Colgan aircraft while taxiing, resulting in minor injuries to a flight attendant. One previous repositioning flight, with no passengers, crashed offshore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in August 2003, killing both of the crew on board. This was the first fatal accident for a Colgan Air passenger flight since the company was founded in 1991. : 15–21 It was delivered to Colgan on April 16, 2008. The twin-engine turboprop Bombardier Q400, FAA registry N200WQ, was manufactured in 2008 for delivery to Colgan. It was delayed two hours, departing at 9:18 pm Eastern Standard Time (02:18 UTC), en route from Newark Liberty International Airport to Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Ī map showing the locations of the Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF) and Clarence Center, the location of the crash siteĬolgan Air Flight 3407 ( 9L/CJC 3407) was marketed as Continental Connection Flight 3407. The Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administrative Extension Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–216) required some of these regulation changes.
Congress to enact more stringent regulations for regional carriers, and to improve the scrutiny of safe operating procedures and the working conditions of pilots. įamilies of the accident victims lobbied the U.S. as of December 2021, Flight 3407 is the most recent aviation incident involving a U.S.-based airline that resulted in mass casualties.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) conducted the accident investigation and published a final report on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, which found the probable cause to be the pilots' inappropriate response to the stall warnings. The aircraft, a Bombardier Q400, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover, and crashed into a house 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. Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, New Jerseyīuffalo Niagara International Airport, Buffalo, New YorkĬolgan Air Flight 3407, marketed as Continental Connection under a codeshare agreement with Continental Airlines, was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York, which crashed on Thursday, February 12, 2009. A Bombardier Q400 similar to the aircraft involved
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