Colgan Air Flight 3407 Crash

Date: February 12, 2009 • Location: Clarence Center, United States

Just before landing at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49 people on board the aircraft.

Buffalo Niagara International Airport is in Cheektowaga, New York, United States. The airport serves Buffalo, New York and Niagara Falls, New York in the United States, and the southern Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada. It is the third-busiest airport in the state of New York and the busiest inside of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The total catchment area for Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF) is estimated to be around 9.2 million people, the largest between NYC to the east and Chicago to the west, largely because it serves as a major, lower-cost alternative for travelers in the Southern Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada, in addition to Western New York. The combined US and Canada service area makes the Buffalo Niagara Region one of the top 10 largest urban regions in North America. It is about 11 miles (18 km) east of Downtown Buffalo and 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Toronto. The airport covers a total area of 1,000 acres (400 ha).