Colgan Air, which operated Thursday night's fatal Continental Connection flight, grew from a little mom-and-pop carrier started by a Virginia lawmaker into a large regional service for three major ...

WASHINGTON -- Executives of Colgan Air struggled Wednesday to defend the ... second day of public hearings into the Feb. 12 crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407, which killed all 49 people ...

Pinnacle, based in Memphis, Tenn., has a fleet of 202 regional jets and 80 turboprop aircraft, and its Colgan Air subsidiary flies for Continental, United Airlines and US Airways Group.

That day an ATR 72-200 operated by Simmons Airlines ... Airlines-subsidiary Horizon Air and former Continental Connection operator Colgan Air – after 2000. And ATR's return to the US market ...

The flight was operated for Continental by Colgan Air. Renslow had logged 3,379 hours of flight time with the carrier since 2005, and Shaw had 2,244 hours, according to the Associated Press.

Two families agreed to settle wrongful-death lawsuits over the crash of Continental Airlines Connection ... Corp. operated the flight through its Colgan Air unit. Tolsma, 45, was an engineer ...

N.Y. And newly released internal emails from Colgan Air — the company Continental contracted with to fly that regional route — reveal that Colgan itself had concerns about the abilities of ...

A view of the wreckage of a Continental Express flight ... apply in the wrongful-death lawsuits because flight operator Colgan Air was based in Virginia at the time of the crash, or whether ...

NTSB Report Highlights Major Safety Lapses, Sheds Light on Regional Carriers Feb. 2, 2010— -- Pilot error was one of the chief causes that led to the deadly ...

He was frustrated. After the accident, he learned his daughter's flight was not operated by Continental, but by a company he had never heard of called Colgan Air. He learned that the FAA had not ...

Pinnacle Airlines subsidiary Colgan Air will double its operations for Continental Airlines under an extension of the regional carrier’s capacity purchase agreement with the Houston-based major.