Colgan Air Flight 3407: The Rule That Missed Both Pilots | They Didn't Go Home
They Didn't Go Home
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On the night of the 12th of February 2009, a regional airliner on a short hop from Newark to Buffalo came down on a house in Clarence Center, New York. Fifty people died, and the crash rewrote the rules on who is allowed to fly an airliner in the United States.
Most people know it as the tired crew and the captain who pulled back. That's on the record. But the investigators and the lawmakers were not answering the same question, and the number this crash is famous for would not have kept either pilot out of that cockpit. This is the whole chain: the airline, the switch, the training, the last minutes on the approach, and the two answers that came after.
0:00 The flight to Buffalo
1:08 Before it left the gate
7:26 The last hour
12:16 Long Street
13:29 The verdict
16:13 The law
19:15 What they already knew
Sources: NTSB Aircraft Accident Report AAR-10/01, Loss of Control on Approach, Colgan Air Flight 3407 (2010), and the NTSB board meeting presentation of 2 February 2010; Public Law 111-216, the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010; 14 CFR Part 117 (77 FR 330); the Pilot Certification and Qualification Requirements final rule (78 FR 42324); the Qualification, Service, and Use of Crewmembers final rule (78 FR 67800); Senate hearing S. Hrg. 111-448 (17 June 2009); the Congressional Record of 29 July 2010.
Imagery from the National Transportation Safety Board and NASA Glenn Research Center (icing research, not the accident airplane). Hearing video: U.S. Senate. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map, USDA NAIP. The airplane, cockpit and diagrams are reconstructions built from the investigators' published figures and data. No real cockpit audio is used.
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Colgan Air Flight 3407: The Rule That Missed Both Pilots | They Didn't Go Home
They Didn't Go Home
132 views
On the night of the 12th of February 2009, a regional airliner on a short hop from Newark to Buffalo came down on a house in Clarence Center, New York. Fifty people died, and the crash rewrote the rules on who is allowed to fly an airliner in the United States.
Most people know it as the tired crew and the captain who pulled back. That's on the record. But the investigators and the lawmakers were not answering the same question, and the number this crash is famous for would not have kept either pilot out of that cockpit. This is the whole chain: the airline, the switch, the training, the last minutes on the approach, and the two answers that came after.
0:00 The flight to Buffalo
1:08 Before it left the gate
7:26 The last hour
12:16 Long Street
13:29 The verdict
16:13 The law
19:15 What they already knew
Sources: NTSB Aircraft Accident Report AAR-10/01, Loss of Control on Approach, Colgan Air Flight 3407 (2010), and the NTSB board meeting presentation of 2 February 2010; Public Law 111-216, the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Extension Act of 2010; 14 CFR Part 117 (77 FR 330); the Pilot Certification and Qualification Requirements final rule (78 FR 42324); the Qualification, Service, and Use of Crewmembers final rule (78 FR 67800); Senate hearing S. Hrg. 111-448 (17 June 2009); the Congressional Record of 29 July 2010.
Imagery from the National Transportation Safety Board and NASA Glenn Research Center (icing research, not the accident airplane). Hearing video: U.S. Senate. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map, USDA NAIP. The airplane, cockpit and diagrams are reconstructions built from the investigators' published figures and data. No real cockpit audio is used.
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