The Crash of Flight 3407
- Air safety legislation is competing for time with health care
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News Washington Bureau Chief
Updated: 08/31/09 7:56 AM WASHINGTON — Airline safety remains a priority in Congress, following the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, but an obstacle stands in its way: health care reform. (Updated: 08/31/09 7:56 AM )
- Soccer star perseveres without her dad, a Flight 3407 victim
- NEWS SPORTS REPORTER
Updated: 03/31/09 1:06 PM PENDLETON—Nicole Borner should be having the time of her life. The 17-year-old Starpoint High School senior will be valedictorian of her class this spring. She’s the first Spartans girls soccer player to earn a Division I scholarship. Throw in the fact that the prom is on the horizon, and there’s a lot to celebrate. (Updated: 03/31/09 1:06 PM )
- Pilot error is possibility discussed by experts
- NEWS STAFF REPORTERS
Updated: 03/26/09 1:06 PM Aviation experts say federal investigators seem to be focusing on possible pilot error to explain why Continental Connection Flight 3407 plunged to the ground in Clarence Center on Feb. 12 and took 50 lives. (Updated: 03/26/09 1:06 PM )
- Roger Cohen: Pilot training, qualification standards make regional airlines safe for fliers
- SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
Updated: 05/11/09 10:26 AM Ever since the accident involving Flight 3407, operated by a Regional Airline Association member airline, there has been speculation that the training, experience and pay of regional pilots are not in line with that of pilots at major airlines and that such disparities were factors in the crash. (Updated: 05/11/09 10:26 AM )
- Long-distance romance ended with Flight 3407 crash
- NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 03/20/09 7:25 PM More than a month after Continental Connection Flight 3407 fell from the sky, snuffing out the lives of 50 people, loved ones of Clay Yarber believe they will finally be able to bid him a proper farewell. (Updated: 03/20/09 7:25 PM )
- CD will raise funds for Flight 3407 memorial
- NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 05/11/09 10:40 AM After the plane crashed and killed 50 people about two miles from Noa Bursie’s house in Clarence, she went online to write down her thoughts and to sort through her feelings. (Updated: 05/11/09 10:40 AM )
- Jack Liguori: Airline pilots should be trained to handle spins
- SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
Updated: 05/11/09 10:40 AM What caused the crash of Flight 3407? (Updated: 05/11/09 10:40 AM )
- Clarence finds ways to ease the pain from crash of Flight 3407
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NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 03/07/09 4:04 PM David Gardner’s sad, surreal experience with the crash of Continental Flight 3407, and his desire to find a way to help, began when he went to his sunroom to see what his dogs were barking about. (Updated: 03/07/09 4:04 PM )
- Julie Ottaway: Collective hearts break for all tied to fatal flight
Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PMThe planes have gotten louder. We are so much more aware of them now. (Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM )
- New pilots struggled with icing situations in 2002 flight test
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NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 02/28/09 4:56 PM Years before the tragedy of Flight 3407, two airline crashes blamed on icing set the stage for an experiment. In a 2002 study, researchers sought to determine how well new airline pilots could handle an “upset airplane,” including airplanes upset by ice. (Updated: 02/28/09 4:56 PM )
- Tim Roemer: Eckert personified Lincoln’s democratic concept
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Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM Afiery plane crash in Clarence Center killed Beverly Eckert, a widow who had lost her husband, Sean Rooney, when a Boeing 767 jet exploded into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM )
- Plane should have been grounded, first Flight 3407 lawsuit claims
- NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 02/27/09 10:43 AM A California aviation attorney, in the first of dozens of lawsuits expected to be filed in the wake of the Flight 3407 crash, says the turboprop plane should never have been flying in icing conditions. (Updated: 02/27/09 10:43 AM )
- Emergency chief praised for work in Clarence
- SUBURBAN CORRESPONDENT
Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM Less than two weeks after Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashed into Clarence Center, the community’s emergency services coordinator presented the Town Board an update on remediation efforts at the site. (Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM )
- Crash might provide some workers’ comp
- NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM The families of some people who died in the Continental Connection Flight 3407 airplane crash may qualify for benefits under the the state’s workers’ compensation program. (Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM )
- Group explains suit over airline safety
- NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM Matt Ziemkiewicz said his heart sank when he heard about the deaths of 50 people Feb. 12 when Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashed and burned in Clarence Center. (Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM )
- Sheila Rooney: Beverly’s bright light will be sorely missed: Beverly Eckert, widow of 9/11 victim, Sean Rooney, was aboard Flight 3407
Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PMI can’t help doing the math. I’ve known Beverly Eckert since I was 8 years old — that’s more than 40 years ago. And it was 28 years ago that she married my brother Sean. It’s now seven and a half years since Sean died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, talking by cell phone with Beverly until the last moment. (Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM )
- Tracy Leyden Doyle: Alison Des Forges’ compassionate spirit brought peace to many
Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PMTen years ago, I was sitting in BWI Airport in Baltimore waiting for my flight to depart to Buffalo. I had just left an Annapolis hospital where my mother was making a slow recovery after being in intensive care for 10 days. (Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM )
- First WNY airline disaster recalled
- NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 02/24/09 8:41 AM He came from out of nowhere in a rumpled suit, stumbling toward the farmhouse on Sawmill Run Road in the Bucktooth hills west of Salamanca. (Updated: 02/24/09 8:41 AM )
- Clarence residents get green light to return to homes on Long Street
- NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 02/24/09 9:19 PM Clarence Center families evacuated after the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 are able to return home today, but that doesn't mean they will. (Updated: 02/24/09 9:19 PM )
- Counseling helps Flight 3407 responders cope
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NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM Dave Bissonette says he's OK, but his red, watery eyes, which have seen a lot, tell a far different story. (Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM )
- Big settlements expected for Flight 3407 families
- NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM Losing a beloved family member in an airplane crash is a horrible way to become a millionaire. (Updated: 03/05/09 12:18 PM )
- Enshrined in loved ones’ hearts
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Updated: 02/22/09 7:26 AM It was a day of warm remembrances and sad farewells as loved ones of the victims of Continental Flight 3407 gathered for memorial services across the region. (Updated: 02/22/09 7:26 AM )
- Flight experts angered by icing rules in wake of Flight 3407 crash
- NEWS STAFF REPORTERS
Updated: 02/22/09 8:38 AM WASHINGTON — A gap in federal regulations allows turboprop planes to be flown without ever being certified as safe in the most dangerous icy conditions — a fact that has enraged flight safety experts for more than a decade and that’s drawing new attention in light of the crash of Flight 3407. (Updated: 02/22/09 8:38 AM )
- Residents’ return to homes is delayed
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News Staff Reporter
Updated: 02/22/09 9:33 AM Residents evacuated from the site of the Clarence plane crash will not be allowed back into their homes until Tuesday. (Updated: 02/22/09 9:33 AM )
- Memorial services begin for victims of Flight 3407
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News Staff Reporters
Updated: 02/21/09 4:49 PM It was a day of sad farewells and warm remembrances as the loved ones of the victims of Continental Flight 3407 gathered for memorial services across the region. (Updated: 02/21/09 4:49 PM )
- Editorial: Crash should spur improvements, victims’ stories must be remembered
Updated: 03/01/09 1:59 PMThis is a weekend of memorials, starting with the ringing of church bells Thursday, exactly one week after the tragic crash of Flight 3407, and continuing in local churches Sunday. There has not been enough time for healing, even in the community at large. For some—for those who lost husbands or wives or parents or children or friends—there may never be enough time for healing, no matter how the passage of days may dull some of the pain. (Updated: 03/01/09 1:59 PM )
- Icing viewed as a key factor in the crash of Flight 3407
- NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
Updated: 02/21/09 4:17 PM WASHINGTON — Pilots, aviation accident attorneys and the survivors of a previous plane crash worry that the late crew of Continental Flight 3407 is being unfairly blamed for a crash that cost 50 lives when icy weather might be the real culprit. (Updated: 02/21/09 4:17 PM )
- Last pieces of plane are gone, but the scar in Clarence Center remains
- NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 02/21/09 4:17 PM You wouldn’t know there had been a plane crash. (Updated: 02/21/09 4:17 PM )
- Ringing of church bells pays respects to victims of plane crash
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News Staff Reporter
Updated: 02/21/09 4:17 PM Town of Clarence officials are asking churches throughout Western New York to peal their church bells at least 50 times at 10:20 p.m. tonight — exactly one week after the crash of Flight 3407. (Updated: 02/21/09 4:17 PM )
- Flight 3407 wreckage cleared from crash site
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News Staff Reporter
Updated: 02/21/09 4:17 PM The final pieces of Flight 3407, hidden beneath blue and white tarpaulins, were hauled away on four trailers this afternoon from Clarence Center, leaving behind a scarred residential lot and the wrenched heart of a community. (Updated: 02/21/09 4:17 PM )
