The D.C. mid-air collision last month ended what had been the longest safety streak without a fatal crash in American commercial aviation. It had been nearly 16 years since the Colgan Air crash.

The DoD performs safety audits of airlines with which it contracts for air carrier services ... that would eventually crash in Buffalo. According to internal Colgan correspondence, FAA inspectors ...

It was the first commercial air disaster since February 2009 when a Colgan Air DHC-8 propeller ... and there are lots of ways to measure safety including deaths per billion miles and fatal ...

The plane was on autopilot during its approach to the Buffalo airport, Chealander said. As to questions about whether the ...

the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2010 significantly tightened standards in response to a deadly plane crash the previous year. In 2009, the Colgan air ...

The crash marks the first involving a commercial plane in the United States since 2009, when a Colgan Air flight went down ... the country has bolstered its safety standards.

Prior to Wednesday, the last airline passenger crash was in 2009 when a Colgan Air Bombardier crashed ... there have been lingering issues with air travel safety that are now in the spotlight ...

The D.C. mid-air collision last month ended what had been the longest safety streak without a fatal crash in American commercial aviation. It had been nearly 16 years since the Colgan Air crash.