De Havilland DHC-8-400 (Dash-8) crash, Feb 12, 2009 (50 killed)
De Havilland DHC-8-400 (Dash-8) accident on February 12, 2009 near Buffalo, New York, United States with 50 fatalities. Cause: The captain's...
- Date: February 12, 2009
- Aircraft: De Havilland DHC-8-400 (Dash-8)
- Location: Buffalo, New York, United States
- Fatalities: 50
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The captain's inappropriate response to the stick shaker activation, which led to an aerodynamic stall. Contributing factors were the crew's failure to monitor airspeed, sterile cockpit lapses, poor flight management by the captain, and Colgan's inadequate airspeed procedures for icing approaches.
Colgan Air flight 3407, a Dash 8 Q400 operating as Continental Connection from Newark, stalled on a night instrument approach to Buffalo-Niagara and crashed into a house in Clarence Center, New York. The captain's response to the stick shaker led to an aerodynamic stall that the crew did not recover from. All 49 people aboard and one person on the ground were killed, and the aircraft was destroyed.