This is partial list of the passengers and crew aboard Continental Connection Flight 3407 as assembled by The Buffalo News. The list will be updated as passengers are confirmed.
Pilot, Capt. Marvin Dean Renslow of Lutz, Fla.
First flight officer Rebecca Lynne Shaw, Maple Valley, Washington.
Flight attendant Matilda Quintero.
Flight attendant Donna Prisco.
Capt. Joseph Zuffoletto, off-duty crew member from Jamestown.
Former Amherst resident Beverly Eckert, the widow of Sean Rooney, who was killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Eckert was traveling to Buffalo for a family celebration of what would have been her husband’s 58th birthday.
Alison DeForges, who once taught at the University at Buffalo, historian and human rights activist who documented the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Ellyce Kausner, a graduate of Clarence High School and Canisius College.
Maddy Loftus, a former Buffalo State College student who lives in New Jersey.
Four employees from the Amherst office of Northrup Grumman, a defense contractor.
Susan Wehle, cantor at Temple Beth Am, Amherst.
Don McDonald, Fort Erie resident, technical manager at Pharmetics, Inc. for 26 years.
Zhaofang Guo, the husband of Dr. Ping Wang at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
Rochester native Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett, musicians with the Chuck Mangione Band, which was scheduled to perform tonight at Kleinhans Music Hall.
ah well, with gas being this cheap and now everyone is going to be scared of turboprop for awhile regardless of the cause of the crash, they’re going to lose money on the decision
Why are people still dwelling on why it was a turbo-prop, why they bought a turbo-prop, etc. Their pros and cons have already been discussed numerous times in this post. Move on already.
No no no. bird strikes can tear through flaps, and other surfaces, crack windows… (under pressurization thats a bad thing)
Its not just losing an engine that is a problem. They can do some other damage.
edit: it can also take out an engine too as it is a Jet engine, with a gear box on it. Also for the most part you can fire bird through jet engines and never have a problem. its when flies down the core (where all the magic happens… ) thats where the problem lies
In my experience I’d say 1 out of 10 flights gets a nice blood smear. Failure from a bird strike in the modern era, is extremely uncommon (in large aircraft). I’d hate to be an f16 pilot and fly through a flock of birds lol
i will bet anything this will end up being an ice induced stall… happens a lot in truboprop aircraft
Other crews have not been so lucky. In fact, just three ice-induced stalls in turboprop aircraft have led to loss-of-control accidents that killed 134 people. These crashes involved an ATR 42 in Crezzo, Italy, in 1987, an ATR 72 in Roselawn, Ind., in 1994 and an EMB 120 Brasilia in Monroe, Mich., in 1997. In all three accidents the pilots initially did not reduce the wing AOA by moving the control column to the nose-down position early in the upset sequence. This hesitation compounded the severity of the upset, and made recovery more difficult and unlikely.
I was going to past the same thing. That is probably the most retarded thing I have seen in the past 30 seconds. (I was reading some of the posts earlier in this thread prior to that 30 seconds and they trump this)
They just added:
Rochester native Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett, musicians with the Chuck Mangione Band, which was scheduled to perform tonight at Kleinhans Music Hall.
It is really amazing of the “mix” of people that are randomly on this fatal flight. Being that it happened in WNY, obviously we will have some type of connection to the victims. Prayers and thoughts out to the families.
