The Colgan Air 3407 crash was a tragedy and reshaped the aviation industry, as we know it today. Everyone on the aircraft including all crewmembers were killed in the crash just outside of Buffalo, New York. The investigation into the crash was very extensive and deemed the crash as pilot error. Using the SHELL model I have determined how certain human factors contributed to the horrific crash. The SHELL model is used to identify what human factors played a role in crashes. SHELL helps us understand the relationship between human factors and the aviation world interact from the aircraft itself to the rules that are followed daily by pilots and airlines. The SHELL model has three different components. The first is Software, which is anything,