Topic: Continental Flight 3407

FAA proposes to strengthen airline pilot training

0 . Federal aviation officials proposed the most wide-ranging overhaul of air crew training in decades Wednesday, more than two years after a crash ...
The pilot in question has been a commercial pilot for 12 years (with four airlines and two corporate aircraft charter/private companies), and he...

Paul Twaragowski

Paul Twaragowski is a 23-year-old man from Depew, New York, one of three men whose delayed flight from New Orleans on February 12 , 2009, made them miss their connection home—Continental Flight 3407 . Passenger Missed Connection to Doomed Continental Flight 3407 That ...
NY judge OKs release of cockpit recording to families suing over deadly plane-into-home crashFamilies suing over the deadly 2009 plane crash into a New York home will be allowed to use the cockpit voice recording at trial.A federal judge in Buffalo ...
6 months later, goodbyes linger for Buffalo crash victims as families retrieve belongingsA small scrap of T-shirt, about six inches square, smoky gray-brown. His wife, Robin, wanted them back.Jennifer West hopes she'll see her husband, Ernie's, wedding band again ...
Lawmakers move to toughen requirements on pilot training, qualifications, hoursCongress is taking steps to toughen regulations on pilot training, qualifications and hours in response to accidents involving regional airlines, including a February crash in upstate New York that killed 50 people.Lawmakers ...

Today’s Colgan Crash Hearings Focus on Pilot Selection, Fatigue

Today's agenda for the National Transportation Safety Board hearings on the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 will focus on pilot selection, training and issues such as fatigue.. The witness being questioned now is Daniel Morgan, the vice president of Flight ...
Crews have finished gathering human remains where a commuter plane crashed into a house and exploded outside Buffalo, N.Y.Dr. Scott Zimmerman of the Erie County Health Department says the office wrapped up its work at the site Tuesday afternoon.Continental ...
NTSB: Officials start removing remains from site of Buffalo-area plane crashA federal official says victims' remains are being removed from the wreckage of a commuter plane that crashed near Buffalo.National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Keith Holloway says investigators are documenting the ...
NY man who missed doomed flight because of weather says flight number 'tattooed in my mind'Paul Twaragowski was supposed to fly out of Newark on Thursday night on Continental Connection Flight 3407 but didn't make it to the airport in ...