"The Pinnacle Airlines Corp. crash in upstate New York was at least the 10th for the regional carrier and its Colgan Air unit since 2001, government data show. It was the third accident with fatalities.
Colgan was operating Flight 3407 for Continental Airlines Inc. when the Bombardier Inc. Dash 8 Q400 turboprop fell to the ground short of the Buffalo airport late yesterday, bursting into flames and killing all 49 people on board and 1 on the ground.
An airline’s safety record is among the areas of inquiry in any crash probe, said Bill Waldock, a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, who has taught aircraft-accident investigation for 25 years.
“It might provoke more of a focus” if a carrier has had recent crashes, said Waldock, who declined to comment specifically on Pinnacle. “One of the basic things regulators will review is trends and patterns.”
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