Plane Crashes Into Home

Black Box Down

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A Bombardier Dash 8 stalls on approach and crashes into a residential house. Colgan Air Flight 3407 was a short 53 minute regional airline passegner flight when it enounters icing conditions and stalls around 2,300 feet. What happened to make this plane go down in the final phases of flight? Find out on this episode of Black Box Down. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @BlackBoxDownPod. https://twitter.com/blackboxdownpod https://www.instagram.com/blackboxdownpod/ Sponsored by Gabi. Go to http://gabi.com/blackboxdown to see how much you can save on your car and homeowners insurance! Also sponsored by Keeps. Go to http://keeps.com/blackboxdown to receive your first month of treatment for free! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	February 12, 2009.
0:05.0	Cotton Nettle connection flight 3407 is nearing the end of its 53-minute flight from New
0:09.6	York, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York.
0:11.7	The plane is carrying 45 passengers and four crew members and is 5 miles from the airport
0:16.2	at 2,300 feet when something goes wrong.
0:19.4	The control column on the bombardier-8 starts shaking as the aircraft loses speed.
0:23.6	The captain pulls back on the column but the plane, a twin turbo prop, is out of control
0:28.0	and plummets to the ground into a residential home below.
0:31.2	The plane's nose seemingly pointed away from the airport.
0:34.7	What happened in the final seconds of this 282-mile routine flight that caused this outcome?
0:39.4	Find out on this episode of Black Boxdown.
0:41.8	Hey everyone, welcome to Black Boxdown.
0:47.5	As always, I'm Gus and I'm here with Chris.
0:50.0	How are you doing Chris?
0:51.0	I'm good.
0:52.0	It's been a couple weeks or so, we've been looking into new incidents to cover and
0:56.0	just as a refresher for everyone.
0:57.5	This is a topic that I'm interested in.
0:59.3	I have no background, never worked for the NTSB, never did anything like that.
1:03.9	I'm not even a pilot.
1:05.0	I just find aviation fascinating and I think when incidents occur, I find it really interesting.
1:11.5	I'm bringing Chris along who really doesn't know anything about aviation, I'd say.
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