A Bombardier DHC8-402 Q400 operating as Flight 3407 departed late from Newark on February 12, 2009, Shortly after the last communication by the flight crew with approach control, the plane stalled less than a mile northeast of the locator outer marker while on an ILS approach to Runway 23[1] and crashed into a house in the northeast Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center, a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Clarence, about 9.3 kilometres (5.0 nmi) short of the runway threshold. A total of 50 people were killed including the two pilots, two flight attendants, 45 passengers (including one off-duty pilot), and one person in the house into which the plane crashed. It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the United States since the crash of Comair Flight 191 in August 2006 which killed 49. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that cause of the crash was pilot error.
A Bombardier DHC8-402 Q400 operating as Flight 3407 departed late from Newark on February 12, 2009, Shortly after the last communication by the flight crew with approach control, the plane stalled less than a mile northeast of the locator outer marker while on an ILS approach to Runway 23[1] and crashed into a house in the northeast Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center, a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Clarence, about 9.3 kilometres (5.0 nmi) short of the runway threshold. A total of 50 people were killed including the two pilots, two flight attendants, 45 passengers (including one off-duty pilot), and one person in the house into which the plane crashed. It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the United States since the crash of Comair Flight 191 in August 2006 which killed 49. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that cause of the crash was pilot error.