Colgan Air Defends Training of Flight 3407 Pilot Photo: A Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 is shown on it's acceptance flight in Toronto.

Listen to radio transmissions from the control tower as they try to contact and locate Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark, N.J. The flight was called "Colgan 3407" by air traffic ...

And newly released internal emails from Colgan Air — the company Continental contracted with to fly that regional route — reveal that Colgan itself had concerns about the abilities of Marvin ...

Colgan Air says in a report submitted this month to the National Transportation Safety Board that the pilot's inattention and failure to follow safety rules likely caused Flight 3407 to plummet ...

Previously airlines only had to give pilots eight-hour breaks. About 100 family members of the Colgan Air crash victims fathered around the country to remember the victims at a ceremony.

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 ...

Rightly or wrongly, pilot training is in the news in light of the Asiana Airlines crash, but prior to the accident there was Colgan Air flight 3407.

Lorin Maurer sat in seat 3A on Colgan Air Flight 3407 on February 12, 2009, and was en route to Buffalo, New York, after taking off from Newark Airport to celebrate the wedding of her boyfriend's ...

On Feb. 12, 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed in Clarence, N.Y., killing everyone on board and one person on the ground. The tragedy was a turning point in American aviation history. Thanks to ...

Previously airlines only had to give pilots eight-hour breaks. About 100 family members of the Colgan Air crash victims fathered around the country to remember the victims at a ceremony.