The transportation secretary’s decision came after the National Transportation Safety Board cited a long history of near ...

D.C., was the first fatal American commercial air disaster since shortly after 10 p.m. on February 12, 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 fell out of the sky and crashed into a house near Buffalo ...

Before Wednesday’s crash in Arlington, Virginia, it had been nearly 16 years since a commercial aircraft crash in the United States. Colgan Air Flight 3407 was approaching the Buffalo-Niagara ...

This crash marks the first fatal U.S. commercial air crash since Feb. 12, 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 ... a commercial aircraft in the United States occurred in August 1986, when ...

Prior to the Washington, D.C., midair collision, the last commercial plane crash in the United States with no survivors was Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009. Colgan Air Flight 3407 was scheduled to ...

The United States’ streak of more than 15 years without ... the last U.S. airline passenger plane crash was in 2009. The crash of a Colgan Air Bombardier turboprop near Buffalo, N.Y., killed ...