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 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.

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 ...

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 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.

“I have to say when you look at our aviation record, our safety record over the past 15 years -- in 2009 obviously we had the Colgan Air crash that killed 47 people – but we haven’t had a ...

CLARENCE CENTER, N.Y. — News of the deadly midair crash ... Colgan Air. Similarly, American Airlines flight 5342 was operated by a regional airline. Changes included passing the Airline Safety ...

The Q400 Bombardier aircraft, operated by Colgan Air, was flying from Newark ... fog and 17 mph winds at the time of the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that a series ...

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.