D.C., was the first fatal American commercial air disaster since shortly after 10 p.m. on February 12, 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 fell out of the sky and crashed into a house near Buffalo ...

That investigation began on Feb. 12, 2009, after Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed ... more than 79,000 airline pilots in the United States and Canada.

The United States’ streak of more than 15 years without ... the last U.S. airline passenger plane crash was in 2009. The crash of a Colgan Air Bombardier turboprop near Buffalo, N.Y., killed ...