Originally Posted by
savall
What makes Buffalo a less major crash ? Obviously it was a smaller airplane, but the loss of life and facts which came out regarding the US aviation industry were MAJOR. Not nitpicking, just wanted to understand the context or if you were simply stating that aside from that their weren't any major crashes...
Major, as opposed to regional, operator. No crash in USA of a domestic major airline since 2001. Quite clearly some of the larger RJ's have a lot of people, but it is not a widebody.