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Colgan Air Flight 3407, marketed as Continental Connection under a codeshare agreement with Continental Airlines, was a daily U.S. regional airline commuter flight from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to Buffalo Niagara International Airport in New York State.
Accident | |
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Date | February 12, 2009 (2009-02-12) |
Summary | Stall and crash due to pilot error |
Site | Clarence Center, New York, United States |
Aircraft type | Bombardier DHC8-402 Q400 |
Operator | Colgan Air, as Continental Connection |
Registration | N200WQ |
Flight origin | Newark Liberty International Airport |
Destination | Buffalo Niagara International Airport |
Passengers | 45 |
Crew | 4 |
Fatalities | 50 (1 on ground) |
Injuries | 4 (all on the ground) |
Survivors | 0 |
A Bombardier DHC8-402 Q400 operating as Flight 3407 departed late from Newark on February 12, 2009, at 9:20 p.m. EST. Shortly after the last communication by the flight crew with approach control at 10:17 p.m. (03:17, February 13 UTC), the plane stalled less than a mile northeast of the Outer Marker (LOM) while on an ILS approach to Runway 23[1] and crashed into a house in the northeast Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center, a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Clarence, about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) short of the runway threshold. A total of 50 people were killed including the 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 the crash of Comair Flight 191 in August 2006 that killed 49.