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Colgan 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 February 12, 2009. The aircraft, a Bombardier Dash-8 Q400, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover and crashed into a house in Clarence Center, New York at 10:17 p.m. EST (03:17 UTC), killing all 49 passengers, aircrew and cabin crew as well as one person inside the house.〔(Update on NTSB investigation into crash of Colgan Air Dash-8 near Buffalo, New York ) NTSB advisory, 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 kts which is arrived at by multiplying 105 kts (the predicted stall speed at 1 G) by 1.19164 (the square root of the flight load in Gs).〕 The accident triggered a wave of inquiries over the operations of regional airlines in the United States; it was the first fatal accident of a commercial airliner in the U.S. since the August 2006 crash of Comair Flight 5191. As of 2015, it remained the most recent fatal crash of a U.S.-based commercial airliner. The accident was investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. The final NTSB report, issued on February 2, 2010, determined that the leading cause of the crash was the pilots' inappropriate response to the stall warnings.〔 Families of the accident's victims lobbied the U.S. Congress to enact more stringent regulations for regional carriers, and apply greater scrutiny to safe operating procedures and the working conditions of pilots. The ''Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administrative Extension Act of 2010'' required some of these regulation changes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010 )〕 ==Flight details== Colgan Air Flight 3407 (9L/CJC 3407) was marketed as Continental Connection Flight 3407. The flight was delayed two hours, departing at 9:18 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST; 02:18 UTC), 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.〔 The twin-engine turboprop Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, registered N200WQ, was manufactured in 2008 for Colgan. N200WQ was registered with the Federal Aviation Administration in April 2008〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FAA Registry: N-Number Inquiry Results )〕 and entered service later that month.〔 The Q400 model has been involved in 13 incidents, but the crash of Flight 3407 was the first resulting in fatalities.〔 This crash was the first fatality on a Colgan Air passenger flight since the company was founded in 1991; there was a previous fatal accident (not involving passengers) in August 2003 when a repositioning flight crashed offshore of Massachusetts, killing both crew members. The only prior aviation incident on 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. The Colgan flight crew consisted of pilot in command (captain) Marvin Renslow, 47, of Lutz, Florida; first officer Rebecca Lynne Shaw, 24, of Maple Valley, Washington; and flight attendants Matilda Quintero and Donna Prisco. The captain was hired in September 2005 and had accumulated 3,379 total flight hours, with 111 hours as captain on the Q400. The first officer was hired in January 2008, and had 2,244 hours, 774 of them in turbine aircraft including the Q400 (in aviation vernacular, known as "time in type").〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frequently Asked Questions – Colgan Air Flight 3407 )〕 Joseph Zuffoletto, an off-duty captain aboard Flight 3407, was hired by Colgan in September 2005〔 and regularly flew out of nearby Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colgan Air Flight 3407」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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