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1 Chapter 1 : Colgan Air Flight - Wikipedia Define fatal accident. fatal accident synonyms, fatal accident pronunciation, fatal accident translation, English dictionary definition of fatal accident. Noun 1. fatal accident - an accident that causes someone to die casualty accident - an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury fatality. One previous ferry flight no passengers crashed offshore of Massachusetts in August, killing both of the crew on board. The only prior accident involving a Colgan Air passenger flight occurred at LaGuardia Airport, when another plane collided with the Colgan aircraft while taxiing, resulting in minor injuries to a flight attendant. Matilda Quintero and Donna Prisco. Captain Renslow was hired in September and had accumulated 3, total flight hours, with hours as captain on the Q First Officer Shaw was hired in January, and had 2, hours, of them in turbine aircraft including the Q The remaining 41 passengers, as well as the crew members, were American. The flight crashed marked in red near the locator outer marker LOM identifier: Shortly after the flight was cleared for the runway 23 instrument landing system approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, it disappeared from radar. The de-icing system had been turned on 11 minutes after takeoff. The last radio transmission from the flight occurred when the first officer acknowledged a routine instruction to change to tower frequency. The plane was 3. The crash occurred 41 seconds after that last transmission. Neither was able to spot the missing plane. That improper action pitched the nose up even further, increasing both the g-load and the stall speed. The stick pusher activated "The Q stick pusher applies an airplane-nose-down control column input to decrease the wing angle-of-attack [AOA] after an aerodynamic stall", [2] but the captain overrode the stick pusher and continued pulling back on the control column. The first officer retracted the flaps without consulting the captain, making recovery even more difficult. Occupants aboard experienced forces estimated at nearly twice that of gravity. The crew made no emergency declaration as they rapidly lost altitude and crashed into a private home at Long Street, [22] about 5 miles 8. The aircraft burst into flames as the fuel tanks ruptured on impact, destroying the house of Douglas and Karen Wielinski, and most of the plane. Douglas was killed; his wife Karen and their daughter Jill managed to escape with minor injuries. There was very little damage to surrounding homes, even though the lots in that area are only 60 feet Two of the firefighters were injured. Twelve nearby houses were evacuated. There were four injuries on the ground, including two other people inside the home at the time of the crash. Among the dead were: Alison Des Forges, a human rights investigator and an expert on the Rwandan genocide. President Barack Obama shaking hands with Beverly Eckert six days before the accident Reactions[ edit ] Colgan Air set up a telephone number for families and friends of those affected to call on February 13, and a family assistance center was opened at the Cheektowaga Senior Center in Cheektowaga CDP, Town of Cheektowaga, New York. House of Representatives held a moment of silence for the victims and their families. Beverly Eckert was a graduate from Buffalo State. Discussed in the episode were issues relating to regional airline regulation, training requirements, safety, and working conditions. Occupants experienced increased forces estimated to be two times that of gravity prior to impact. Portable heaters were used to melt ice left in the wake of the firefighting efforts. Human remains were carefully removed, and then finally identified, over a period of several weeks. The cockpit had sustained the greatest impact force, while the main cabin was mostly destroyed by the ensuing fireball. Passengers in the rear section were still strapped in their seats. The NTSB found no evidence of severe icing conditions, which would have required the pilots to fly manually. In December, the NTSB issued a safety bulletin about the danger of keeping the autopilot engaged during icing conditions. Flying the plane manually was essential to ensure pilots would be able to detect changes in the handling characteristics of the airplane, which are a warning sign of ice accumulation. As designed, it pushed the nose down when it sensed a stall was imminent, but the captain again reacted improperly and overrode that additional safety device by pulling back again on the control column, causing the plane to stall and crash. The captain appeared to have been at Newark airport overnight, prior to the day of the 9: The first officer commuted from Seattle to Newark on an overnight flight. Renslow did have intentions of landing safely at Buffalo, as well as first officer Shaw, but obviously in those last few moments Government federal whistle-blower complaints. Final report[ edit ] Page 1

2 On February 2,, the NTSB issued its final report, describing the details of its investigation that led to 46 specific conclusions. Among those conclusions were the fact that both the Captain and the first officer responded to the stall warning in a manner contrary to their training. The NTSB could not explain why the first officer retracted the flaps and suggested that the landing gear should also be retracted, though it did find that the current approach-stall training was not adequate: The current air carrier approach-to-stall training did not fully prepare the flight crew for an unexpected stall in the Q and did not address the actions that are needed to recover from a fully developed stall. Hart and Board Member Robert L. Sumwalt, III dissented on the inclusion of fatigue as a contributing factor, on the grounds that there was not enough evidence to support such a conclusion. It was noted that the same kind of pilot errors and standard operating procedure violations had been found in other accidents where fatigue was not a factor. One of the most significant changes has already taken effect, changing the way examiners grade checkrides in flight simulators during stalls. The NTSB theorized that due to this low tolerance in a tested simulation environment, pilots may have come to fear loss of altitude in a stall and thus focused primarily on preventing such a loss, even to the detriment of recovering from the stall itself. New standards subsequently issued by the FAA eliminate any specific altitude loss stipulation, calling instead for "minimal loss of elevation" in a stall. One examiner has told an aviation magazine that he is not allowed to fail any applicant for losing altitude in a simulated stall, so long as the pilot is able to regain the original altitude. The book One on the Ground was published on March 6, In popular culture[ edit ]. Page 2

3 Chapter 2 : Teen Drivers: Get the Facts Motor Vehicle Safety CDC Injury Center Most deadliest craziest scary car motorcycle accident compilation! Warning graphic! Be Thankful for another day. You are blessed to be alive. Soundtrack From. September 11 attacks 2, The deadliest aviation-related disaster of any kind, considering fatalities on both the aircraft and the ground, was the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, On that morning four aircraft traveling on transcontinental flights from East Coast airports to California were hijacked after takeoff, and used in four separate suicide attacks against major American landmarks by 19 Islamic terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda. American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight were intentionally crashed into the North and South Towers respectively of the World Trade Center, destroying both buildings in less than two hours. The World Trade Center crashes killed 2,, the vast majority of fatalities being occupants of the World Trade Center towers or emergency personnel responding to the disaster. This brought the total number of casualties of the September 11 attacks to 2, including the 19 terrorist hijackers. Tenerife disaster[ edit ] The Tenerife airport disaster, which occurred on March 27,, remains the accident with the highest number of airliner passenger fatalities. There were no survivors from the KLM aircraft; 61 of the passengers and crew on the Pan Am aircraft survived. Pilot error was the primary cause, as the KLM captain began his takeoff run without obtaining air traffic control clearance. The KLM flight crew could not see the Pan Am aircraft on the runway until immediately before the collision. An increased emphasis was placed on using standardized phraseology in air traffic control ATC communication by both controllers and pilots alike. The captain is no longer considered infallible, and combined crew input is encouraged during aircraft operations. The crash of Japan Airlines Flight on August 12,, is the single-aircraft disaster with the highest number of fatalities: The aircraft suffered an explosive decompression from an incorrectly repaired aft pressure bulkhead, which failed in mid flight, destroying most of its vertical stabilizer and severing all of the hydraulic lines, making the virtually uncontrollable. All 15 crew members and of the passengers on board died. The death toll was exacerbated by delays in the rescue operation. Although a number of people survived the impact, by the time the Japanese rescue teams arrived at the crash site all but four had succumbed to their injuries. The collision was mainly the result of the Kazakh pilot flying lower than the assigned clearance altitude. All passengers and crew on board of both the aircraft died. Other crashes with death tolls of or higher[ edit ] See also: List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in at least 50 fatalities and List of aircraft accidents and incidents by number of ground fatalities The London-bound plane crashed shortly after taking off from Orly airport; all people on board died. It was later determined that the cargo door detached, which caused an explosive decompression; this caused the floor just above to collapse. The collapsed floor severed the control cables, which left the pilots without control of the elevators, the rudder and No. It was the deadliest plane crash of all time until the Tenerife disaster in On June 23,, Air India Flight, a Boeing B, crashed off the southwest coast of Ireland when a bomb exploded in the cargo hold. All passengers and 22 crew members died. Singh did not board the flight. His suitcase containing the bomb was loaded onto the plane, however. This was, at the time, the deadliest terrorist attack involving an airplane. The crew performed an emergency landing at Riyadh after a fire broke out in an aft baggage compartment. The fire burned through the ceiling of the compartment and into the passenger cabin. While the crew managed to land the plane safely, the captain did not stop immediately and order an evacuation. He taxied off the runway instead, by which time everyone in the cabin had become unconscious due to fumes and unable to open any doors or evacuate. All passengers and crew died of suffocation before rescue ground crews could open any door, after which the aircraft burst into flames and was consumed by fire. There were passengers, including 3 infants, and 15 crew members on board MH17, all of whom perished. The crew were all Malaysians, while the passengers were of various nationalities, most from the Netherlands. According to a Dutch report, high-energy objects hit the plane in midair, causing it to break apart. According to the preliminary report of the international investigation commission, the plane was shot down by Russian occupation troops using a surface-to-air missile fired from the Ukrainian territory that they occupied. This was the deadliest incident involving a Boeing All passengers Page 3

4 and crew aboard the aircraft died. The official report says bad weather brought the aircraft down; high winds and fog were present at the time of the crash. This broke hydraulic lines, causing leading edge lift devices to retract on that side of the aircraft and resulted in asymmetrical lift and loss of control. The accident was attributed to improper maintenance procedures. The crash resulted in the deaths of all passengers and crew on board, as well as two people on the ground. All passengers and 16 crew, and 11 people on the ground all residents of Sherwood Crescent, Lockerbie, died, [24] [25] making it the worst terrorist attack involving an aircraft in the UK and the deadliest terrorist attack on British soil. Following the crash, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed new security measures on American airlines flying out of airports in Western Europe and the Middle East. All people on board, as well as five people on the ground, died from the crash. All passengers and 14 crew members were killed. It is the deadliest aviation accident involving a DC-8, the largest aviation disaster involving a Canadian-registered aircraft and the second-worst accident in Saudi Arabia. On April 11,, an Algerian Air Force Il transport plane crashed shortly after take-off from Boufarik Airport, killing all passengers and 10 crew on board. On December 12,, a Douglas DC-8, Arrow Air Flight, carrying American military personnel on a charter flight home for Christmas, crashed in Newfoundland ; all passengers and 8 crew members died. It carried 12 Malaysian crew members and passengers from 15 nations. Numerous theories have been offered to explain the disappearance of the flight, but none has been confirmed. On September 26,, an Airbus AB, Garuda Indonesia Flight, which departed from Jakarta, Indonesia, and was preparing to land at Medan, North Sumatra, crashed into mountainous terrain, killing passengers and 12 crew members. The causes included turning left instead of right as instructed by the ATC and descending below the assigned altitude of 2, feet due to pilot error. Kennedy International Airport on a flight to Paris and Rome. A lengthy investigation concluded that the probable cause of the accident was a short circuit in a fuel tank that contained an explosive mixture of fuel vapor and air. As a result, new requirements were developed to prevent future fuel tank explosions in aircraft. The crew reacted incorrectly, leading to an aerodynamic stall from which the jet did not recover. On August 6,, a Boeing B5, Korean Air Flight, crashed on approach to the international airport in the United States territory of Guam, killing of the people aboard. On January 8,, an Antonov AnB aircraft with 6 crew members on board overshot the runway at Kahemba Airport and plowed into a market place. Four on board survived but people on the ground were killed and an estimated were injured estimated seriously injured. It is usually known as the Air Africa crash. It was determined that the crash, which killed all passengers and 19 crewmembers aboard the plane, was caused by improper repairs to the aircraft 22 years earlier when the aircraft encountered a tailstrike. All passengers and 7 crewmembers were killed. A branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for bringing down the jet, and a Russian investigation concluded that a bomb was detonated inside the plane at a high altitude. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of the crash was deliberate action by the relief first officer in response to his removal from international service within Egyptair, a finding disputed by Egyptian authorities who maintain another cause of the accident. An investigation concluded that the captain became disoriented after the failure of one of the flight instruments in the cockpit, leading to "irrational control inputs" that caused the plane to crash. As the aircraft approached the airport, the pilot executed a sudden steep ascent that produced a stall and crash. China Airlines was also criticized for "insufficient training. All passengers and 9 crew were killed. An investigation concluded that the plane went down due to pilot error. The air crew used an inappropriately low airspeed, causing vibrations that they incorrectly interpreted as engine surges. As a result, they further reduced engine power, causing the aircraft to stall and crash. Page 4

5 Chapter 3 : Tesla driver dies in first fatal crash while using autopilot mode Technology The Guardian On March 18th, a year-old woman was struck by a self-driving Uber vehicle in Tempe, Arizona. She was transported to the hospital, where she died. In the aftermath, Uber's self-driving program. What we know about the fatal limo crash that killed 20 people in upstate New York Posted: Oct 8, 4: State police say 20 people died in a crash in upstate New York that local officials say involved a limousine near a crowded tourist spot. All 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians were killed. In this Saturday, Oct. S in nine years. Police offered few details about what the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board called a "horrific crash" in the town of Schoharie. But media reports and interviews detailed the devastation. Four sisters in the limousine were killed; so too were a newly married couple in their 30s; as were the driver and two pedestrians who were visiting at a popular country store, where the vehicle barreled through the parking lot. The couple were married in June. State Police First Superintendent Christopher Fiore told reporters Sunday the limousine, a Ford Excursion, failed to stop at the intersection at about 1: The limousine then slammed into a parked, unoccupied Toyota Highlander. Witnesses said the limousine crashed into an embankment behind the parking lot of the Apple Barrel Country Store. The store manager, Jessica Kirby, told The New York Times the limousine was coming down a hill at "probably over 60 mph. The T-shaped intersection has long been a trouble spot, and Kirby told the The Associated Press that repeatedly tractor trailers were unable to stop at the intersection and crashed near the store. The 17 young adults in the limousine, who were all believed to be from nearby Amsterdam, were headed to Cooperstown to celebrate the 30th birthday of Amy Steenburg, according to reports. Two of the couples were newlyweds, the paper said. My heart breaks for the 20 people who lost their lives in the horrific accident on Saturday in Schoharie. I have directed State agencies to provide every resource necessary to aid in the investigation, and I join all New Yorkers in mourning during this extremely difficult time. Police said they would reconstruct the accident scene and conduct autopsies to help their investigation. They declined to provide any details about what might have caused the crash. It was the most deadly transportation accident in the country since February, said National Transportation Safety Board chairman Robert Sumwalt. He added the investigation is focused to find "not only what happened, but why it happened so we can keep things like this from happening in the future. The accident also raises new questions about limousine safety. Three years ago, four women were killed in a limousine on Long Island as they toured wineries when the vehicle was hit by a truck. A driver and the front-seat passenger are required to wear seat belts inside stretch limousines, but not the back-seat passengers, police said Sunday. After the Long Island crash, Sen. Chuck Schumer said he urged the NTSB to better investigate limousine accidents in the country, saying Sunday, "because we desperately need more data to prevent them and minimize their toll. Chapter 4 : NPR Choice page A self-driving Uber vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in a late-night accident in Tempe, Arizona, police said on Monday. The accident is believed to be the first pedestrian fatality involving. Chapter 5 : Aviation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia Limo in NY crash failed inspection; driver lacked 'appropriate' license: Cuomo The driver of the limo that crashed in Schoharie, killing 20 people, didn't have the proper license to operate the. Page 5