Cogs in the Machine: The crash of Colgan Air flight 3407 and its legacy

On the 12th of February 2009, a Bombardier Q400 turboprop flying on behalf of Continental Connection lost control on approach and plunged into a neighborhood near Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one on the ground. The crash immediately galvanized unprecedented public attention, triggering a popular movement for aviation safety that grew with each new revelation uncovered by the National Transportation Safety Board. At the same time, within the aviation community the crash came to be viewed as a product of many of the most serious and intractable problems affecting the industry, from pilot working conditions and pay to training and professionalism, especially at the so-called regional airlines, which operated on behalf of, but without oversight from, the handful of carriers widely known to the general public. <a href="https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/cogs-in-the-machine-the-crash-of-colgan-air-flight-3407-and-its-legacy-df0072def433">Read More</a>