CO crash Buffalo, NY

[Platy]

Reports of a Continental plane crashing in Buffalo, New York State, US.

Airliner crashes into house: '49 killed' | smh.com.au

 

[Nigelinoz]

PPRuNe is reporting it as Colgan Air (Continental codeshare) flight 3407
,some confusion about aircraft type but according to flightstats was a Dash 8-400.
www.http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/362057-commuter-crash-buffalo.html

R.I.P

 

[Bundy Bear]

[FONT=ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva][FONT=ARIAL,]The plane was a Dash 8-400 N200WQ flying as Continental Connection (Colgan Air)

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[FONT=ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva][FONT=ARIAL,]The Colgan Air Flight CO3407 a Dash 8 Q400 crashed landed in Buffalo NY with 48 Pax and crew on board.





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[futaris]

Breaking News: CO 3407 crashes while on descent into BUF - FlyerTalk Forums

https://www.continental.com/web/en-US/content/news/flight3407.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPoqhEHKNQk

 

[markis10]

Terrible stuff, sounds like it was a sudden thing, my thoughts and prayers are with those affected both on the plane and one the ground, the ATC tape on FT is chilling.

 

[JohnK]

Very scary. There would have been a glimmer of hope that they were going to land OK but then the aircraft plunged into the house.

Ice 'built up on doomed plane'

Minutes before Continental Flight 3407 plummeted to the ground killing all on board the pilots noticed a build up of ice on the plane's wings and windshield, an official said.

The plane was on its approach to Buffalo airport, New York state, when the crew spotted the problem, according to recordings taken earlier on Friday from the aircraft's black boxes after the crash left 50 dead.

"The crew discussed significant ice buildup, ice on the windshield and leading edge of the wings," Steve Chealander, an official with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), told a press conference....

 

[docjames]

Reports seem to be emeging that a/c was on autopilot at the time of the crash.

Apparently (I'm no expert) recommendation is to fly manually in conditions likely to lead to ice buildup - the theory is you feel loss of performance before the autopilot notices / alarms.

Dont have access to the FT tape. Probably a good thing by the sounds of it.

 

[oz_mark]

Reports seem to be emeging that a/c was on autopilot at the time of the crash.

Apparently (I'm no expert) recommendation is to fly manually in conditions likely to lead to ice buildup - the theory is you feel loss of performance before the autopilot notices / alarms.

The report I read said that autopiliot should be off when there is 'severe icing'. At present they are not saying whether or not those conditions existed.

 

[NM]

Rules 'broken' in Buffalo plane crash

A follow-up to this accident from news.com.au:

THE pilot and co-pilot of a US commuter plane that crashed on February 12 near Buffalo, New York exchanged idle banter in violation of regulations moments before the plane went down, a transcript showed.