Colgan Air 3407 Dahs8-400 Feb crasgh: NTSB animation

[JF Mezei]

NTSB are holding public hearings to describe their progress in the
investigation of the Colgan Air (Continental livery) Q400 crash in
Carence NY back in february.

Animation of last 2 minutes of flight:

http://www.ntsb.gov/Events/2009/Buffalo-NY/AnimationDescription.htm

A Rochester TV station provided a bit more detail about what happened.
The crew had not really been trained in simulators on how to handle
icing and had been casulally talking about it before the event (not
realising that it would be their doom).

When the stick started to shake becauyse of a stall warning, the pilot
PULLED UP instead of going down.

The plane really did have wild girations before noseding to the ground
(explaining why the damage was limited to one home).

The stick shaker was turn on when they went below 130 knots. During the
event, they went down below 100 knots for a while, and airspeed
increated when they began the final nosedive.
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