A pilot's inattention and failure to follow safety rules likely caused a commuter plane to plummet from the sky near Buffalo in February, killing 50 people, the airline told federal investigators. The twin-engine turboprop also lacked an adequate system to warn the pilots when ...

A regional airline is blaming the pilot for the commuter plane crash that killed 50 people near Buffalo earlier this year. Colgan Air says in a report submitted this month to the National Transportation Safety Board that the pilot's inattention and failure to follow ...

A union official says the regional airline involved in an air crash earlier this year in upstate New York that killed 50 people has been pushing pilots to fly even if they say they are too sick or too tired. John Prather, president of the ...

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that a deadly plane crash near Buffalo demonstrated a "complete inattention to basic details" compared with the "textbook greatness" of the safe landing of a jetliner on the Hudson River just weeks earlier. Administrator Randy Babbitt made the comments ...