Revisiting the Buffalo Plane Crash, One Year Later

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The National Transportation Safety Board released its report on what it believed was the cause for Continental Flight 3407’s crash in Buffalo nearly one year ago. After a year long investigation, the NTSB concluded the crash was caused by pilot error, and “complacency and confusion that resulted in catastrophe.”

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