United Airlines Flight 42

United Airlines Flight 42 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island to Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On January 21, 2002, the Ebraer E170 entered a snowstorm and crashed into a street in Buffalo, New York. All 48 passengers on board were killed, along with 12 people on the street. The accident was the cause of a faulty transmission from Air-Traffic-Control in Warwick about the storm.

Aircraft
The United Airlines Flight 42 was a Ebraer E170 (registration N38666). The aircraft was built and had its first flight in 1979. The crew included pilot Paul Hoakland, First Officer David DeSantos, and flight attendants Liam Carlson, Mary Hernandez, Jessica Braun, Joshua Coles, Hannah Matthews, Donald York, Andrea Simpson, and Peter Wolfe. The aircraft had a load factor of 132 passengers, but with 48 passengers on January 21, the load factor was 48 percent. United Airlines said that Mondays were the least-traveled day of the week, with the same factor seen on Fridays in the previous eight months for Flight 42

Boarding and departure
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Crash
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