Rebecca Lynne Shaw was the 24-year-old co-pilot on the Continental Connection Flight that came crashing down near Buffalo, N.Y. in 2009.
Coverage of the recent mid-air collision brought up painful memories for John and Marilyn Kausner, whose daughter Elly was among those killed in the last major U.S. air disaster.
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Hosted on MSNWhat caused Flight 3407 to crash? Revisiting the 2009 tragedy on its 16th anniversaryFebruary 12, 2009, marked an important date in aviation history. The crash, which killed 49 people, involved a Bombardier DHC ...
More than 80 commercial planes have crashed in the U.S. since 1970.
The tragic accident, caused by a midair collision between a regional American Airlines jetliner and an Army helicopter, is the most recent fatal commercial aviation accident in the U.S.
The grim event recalls the last time a major airline crash occurred, when Flight 3407 departed from New Jersey nearly 16 ...
families of the victims spent years fighting for stricter airline pilot training guidelines, particularly for regional airlines. Flight 3407 was operated by now-defunct Colgan Air. Similarly ...
Wednesday's crash involving an American Airlines flight and Black Hawk helicopter marked the first commercial crash on U.S.
In 2018, a passenger on a Southwest Airlines jet was killed after shrapnel from the plane's engine crashed through a window and caused such a drop in air pressure that a passenger suffered fatal ...
Nearly 16 years ago, Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed ... system to warn the pilots when the plane was flying too slowly, contributing to the tragedy, said Colgan Air Inc. Fifty people ...
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