Colgan Air Flight 3407
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Colgan Air Flight 3407, a scheduled passenger flight from Newrk, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York crashed on February 12, 2009 killing all on board, including prominent 9-11 truther, Beverly Eckert.
Official narrative
The aircraft, a Bombardier Dash-8 Q400, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover and crashed into a house in Clarence Center, New York at 10:17 p.m. EST (03:17 UTC), killing all 49 passengers and crew on board, as well as one person inside the house.[1] The black boxes were found.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
As well as Beverly Eckert, also aboard the flight was Alison Des Forges, an expert on the Rwandan genocide.[2]
Sudden onset
Neither the controller nor the pilot showed concern that anything was out of the ordinary as the airplane was asked to fly at 2,300 feet. A recording of communication between the doomed plane and the Buffalo, N.Y. airport suggests the pilot was calm just moments before the commuter plane crashed into a house, killing everyone on board and one in the Clarence, N.Y. home.[3]
References
- ↑ Update on NTSB investigation into crash of Colgan Air Dash-8 near Buffalo, New York NTSB advisory, March 25, 2009 "The data indicate a likely separation of the airflow over the wing and ensuing roll two seconds after the stick shaker activated while the aircraft was slowing through 125 knots and while at a flight load of 1.42 Gs. The predicted stall speed at a load factor of 1 G would be about 105 knots." Note: The predicted stall speed for this aircraft at a flight load of 1.42 Gs would be about 125 kts which is arrived at by multiplying 105 kts (the predicted stall speed at 1 G) by 1.19164 (the square root of the flight load in Gs).
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090218075853/http://www.buffalonews.com/515/story/580009.html
- ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-boxes-found-from-buffalo-crash/
