Colgan Air And Continental Connection Flight 3407 Air Crash

Contributing to the cause of the accident was the Cherokee pilot’s interrupted radio transmission, which led to the Beech 1900C pilots’ misunderstanding of the transmission as an indication from the King Air that it would not take off until after flight 5925 had cleared the runway. Contributing to the severity of the accident and the loss of life was the

On September 19, 2008 at 11:53 pm eastern standard daylight time, a chartered Bombardier Learjet Model 60, N999LJ, owned by Inter Travel and Services, Inc., and operated by Global Exec Aviation, overran runway 11 during a RTO at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Columbia, South Carolina. The aircraft crashed and burned after the crew was unable to stop the aircraft before departing the runway. The captain, the first officer, and two passengers were killed; two other passengers were seriously injured. The chartered passenger flight was headed to Van Nuys, California. The flight was ready for departure just prior to midnight. After analysis of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) transcript, it was revealed that the flight crew received clearance instructions from the CAE ground controller to taxi from the northeast fixed-base operator’s (FBO) parking ramp to runway 11. After a short conversation with the first officer about which way to turn, the captain, who was the pilot flying, turned the aircraft left onto taxiway U. The controller provided a corrected taxi clearance after detecting

Crashes are rare, and most of the time are consequences of many unrelated factors. Many believe that airplane crashes are the cause of bad piloting or harsh weather; but other factors are overlooked. Suren Ratwatte have been studying airplane

According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the mid-air was primarily the fault of the PSA aircrew for failing to maintain visual separation and not informing the tower that they had lost visual contact. Contributing factors were control tower procedures allowing

An American Airline, Boeing 767, had been hijacked and was loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel. Boeing 767 was crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact of the crash had left a wide open, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skycraper. The crash of the Boeling 767 had instantly killed over hundreds of people, and left hundreds more people trapped up in the higher levels of the skyscraper. Firefighters and other rescuers had started to evacuate the people left in the World Trade Center. Leaving numerous people confused, startled, and petrified about the hijacked plane and the accident, many people had not known that it had only been the start of the day.

On Saturday, August twenty-second, a stunt plane at an air show in England crashed and killed seven people. It was said that the pilot of the stunt plane was attempting to do a loop, but lost control and crashed onto a highway. The seven people that were killed in this accident were people just driving on highway and were caught in the accident. The plane model that crashed was called a “Hawker Hunter”, and it was a plane model from the Cold War. Along with the seven people that were killed in the accident, there are around fourteen people that were injured.

This crash is considered to be the second deadliest aviation accident at the time in the US.

Unfortunately, crashes and crises aren’t a new things in today 's world. Far too often we have car crashes, boats sinking, car explosions, or bus crashes. Not too often do you hear about plane crashes, however, when you do it is fatal. One truly amazing plane crash involved two amazing pilots, birds, and one miracle landing on the Hudson.

Airplanes are considered the safest way to travel with the odds of crashing being one in every 1.2 million flights. Flight is a movie based off of the Alaskan Airlines Flight 261 incident that occurred on January 21st, 2000 on route from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to Seattle, Washington which crashed into the Pacific Ocean killing two pilots, three cabin crewmembers and eighty-three passengers. (Goodman & Priscilla Pg. 1) However, in Flight SouthJet Flight 227 on route from Orlando, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia has a different outcome with only six deaths out of 102 persons two of which were cabin crewmembers and four passengers. According to the National Transport Safety Board (NTSB)

On June 1st, 1999 American Airlines flight 1420 experienced a tragic accident that claimed many lives and made an impact on aviation worldwide. The event and it subsequent investigation shed

A 10-passenger Hawker business jet flying from Dayton crashed into an apartment building in Akron, Ohio killing all 9 of its passengers and aircrew. The plane was reported to be approaching the Akron Fulton International Airport at around 3:00pm on Tuesday, November 11th when it collided into the residential structure, which was vacant at the time. Of the 9 passengers aboard, 7 were employees from Pebb Enterprises, a real estate company based in Florida. Representatives from the Federal Aviation Association and The National Transportation Safety Board are in the process of investigating the cause of the crash. “It was a perfectly well-maintained aircraft with no squawks, there was no chatter from the pilots to indicate anything was out of the

Airline is the largest and fastest growing travel industry. As the result of its expansion, statistically, airplane accident/incidents must increases as well but automation and increased “pilot proof” systems onboard keep it at a minimal level. Nowadays most of the plane crashes are due to “systems failure” so pilots are not/given as little credit for their heroic action on saving people’s life in the event of an emergency. As on January 15, 2009 when Captain Sullenberger ditched his Airbus A320 which lost both of its engine power in the Hudson river public thought of him and his crew as heroes, but insiders believed that he could not have done that without the capabilities of the Airbus A320’s fly by wire systems. In Fly by Wire: the geese,

After a report from Boeing, they reported “Boeing told the board there was nothing wrong with the plane, and the crash was caused by the failure of the pilots”(The Guardian, 2014). Based from Boeing comment, this showed that the pilot was unfamiliar with the equipment and surely wasn’t ready to fly the plane. In addition, the pilot was new to the Boeing 777 plane model, which means he should have use extreme caution when operating an aircraft that is unfamiliar.

In response to the incident, various representatives from the airline expressed contradictory reasoning as of the why hundreds of flies were canceled and/or affected by such incident. Willie D. Jones from IEEE spectrum suggests that Delta’s computer system failure is a part of a pattern. He expressed such opinion departing on that major other

This paper investigates the ethical responsibilities of the two pilots and Bombardier Aerospace in the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407. On February 12, 2009, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a residential area, killing 49 persons on board and 1 on the ground. The pilots of the flight made a series of unethical mistakes that induced the plane to stall. In addition, several design trade-offs of the Q400 made it difficult for pilots to identify and prevent stalling. This paper begins by an overview of the accident, then it introduces the technical background, including the stall recovery procedure, and the safety designs of the Q400. Next, the paper discusses the unethical errors of the pilots using the ALPA Code of Ethics. It then evaluates