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.

Flight 3407 was operated by now-defunct Colgan Air. Similarly, American Airlines flight 5342 was operated by a regional airline. Changes included passing the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation ...

Last month's mid-air collision near Washington, D.C., was the first fatal American commercial air disaster since shortly after 10 p.m. on February 12, 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 fell out of ...