The crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 in Buffalo, in February 2009, is a perfect example of what can happen when the pilots in the cockpit are lacking experience, skill and adequate sleep.

Washington (CNN)-- Colgan Air -- under fire for hiring, training, pay and commuting policies after the February crash of Flight 3407 near Buffalo ... to follow "sterile cockpit" rules that ...

Colgan Air Flight 3407 was a Continental Connection plane ... There had also been sterile cockpit rule violations—a policy to reduce distractions during the critical phases of flight—resulting ...

when Colgan Air Flight 3407 fell out of the sky and crashed into a house near Buffalo, New York. It was the 14th fatal crash of a U.S. airliner in 15 years, but the 2009 disaster would become a ...