Whose Flight Was 3407?

In news stories about the crash of a commuter turboprop into a house outside Buffalo, N.Y., in February, the flight has been referred to alternately as Colgan Air Flight 3407, Continental Airlines Flight 3407 and Continental Connection Flight 3407.

This underscores the confusion about who is responsible for flights flown by regional airlines under contract to major carriers. Continental sold tickets for the flight and its name was painted on the aircraft. But the plane belonged to Colgan Air, a subsidiary of Pinnacle Airways, which also employed the pilots.

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