MonkFan8 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 CNN Doesn't seem to be much info yet. Hoping for the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacase Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96AGBM00&show_article=1 BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - New York state police say a 50-passenger commuter plane has crashed into a home in suburban Buffalo. There was no immediate information on injuries. State Trooper John Manthey says the plane hit a house in Clarence around 10:10 p.m. Thursday. Flames erupted from remnants of the house and aircraft as firefighters sought to control the blaze. Manthey says they don't know whether there were any passengers on the plane. They also don't know if there were any injuries in the home. Clarence is about 20 miles northeast of Buffalo. Manthey says the plane may have been headed to Buffalo Niagara International Airport. He says authorities have called the Federal Aviation Administration. Oh man, I am flying to Germany tommarrow to.....This is gonna suck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 CNN showing video. http://www.cnn.com/video/?iref=videoglobal That does not look good at all. The house was completley engulfed in flames. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Oh Lord... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisenberg Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Wow . . . this is horrible . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Looks like everyone on board was killed. Buffalo News is reporting 49 people dead. This sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Looks like everyone on board was killed. Buffalo News is reporting 49 people dead. This sucks. Horrible news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Damn, the plane is still on fire right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkFan8 Posted February 13, 2009 Author Share Posted February 13, 2009 Looks like everyone on board was killed. Buffalo News is reporting 49 people dead. This sucks. Ugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 nvm............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tryfuhl Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 person on ground was counted in the 49 I read earlier horrible either way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacky McSlackAss Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 person on ground was counted in the 49 I read earlierhorrible either way Your right. 48 on the plane, 1 on the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tryfuhl Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Colgan Air got bought out by pinnacle a couple of years ago Charles Colgan Sr is one of the better men I've met in my life.. longest serving VA Senator, past 2 governors have begged him not to retire.. Conservative Democrat and a hell of a storyteller.. not happy for what happened either way but glad he's not on top of the airline anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LApunkrocker72 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 This is just awful news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy Burner Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 The world had gone a record amount of time without loss of life from an air disaster. Seems like we were on borrowed time after last month's miracle. Sad news and prayers for all of the families who will be affected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Sad news , just found out now. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiLfan Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Among the 44 passengers killed was a woman whose husband died in the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A fellow 9/11 activist said Beverly Eckert was heading to Buffalo for a celebration of what would have been her husband's 58th birthday. -- from Washingtonpost.com article this morning.wow, that is just too tragic if true. almost surreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 The world had gone a record amount of time without loss of life from an air disaster. The last airline disaster was in 2006 in Lexington, Ky when that Comair Bombardier CRJ-100 chose the wrong runway. I would think the world has gone longer than that without a crash, but I may be wrong. Anyway my thoughts and prayers to the families affected by this latest tragedy. The story about the widow of the 9/11 victim is so tragic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'KanSkinFan Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,492164,00.html May God be with their families that were on this plane and with the family of the one that perished on the ground. I do pray they receive peace, and may the God and the angels be with the people who are working this crash~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buford T. Justice Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 RIP everyone Considering how take offs and landings are the most dangerous part of flying, I wonder if flight paths are designed to minimize damage/increase possibility of a safe landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickalino Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 After hearing the crash' date=' Dworak drove over to take a look, and "all we were seeing was 50 to 100 foot flames and a pile of rubble on the ground. It looked like the house just got destroyed the instant it got hit." .....One person in the home that the plane struck was killed, and two others inside were able to escape with minor injuries.[/quote']The way that plane destroyed that house, it's nothin but a freakin miracle, that 2 people could escape with only minor injuries - or escape alive, at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brave Little Toaster Oven Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE51C2L320090213 Doomed plane suddenly lost contact: tower tapesFri Feb 13, 2009 6:16am EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The commuter plane that crashed near Buffalo, New York, late on Thursday was set to start its approach to land when air traffic controllers suddenly lost contact, control tower communications show. As the tower called in vain for Continental Connection flight 3407 operated by Colgan Air to respond, one controller asked for help to find out what happened to the Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 plane with 44 passengers and four crew on board. "Colgan 3407. Buffalo Tower. How do you hear?" the controller said. "This is ground communication. We need to talk to someone at least five miles northeast ... either state police or sheriff's department. We need to find out if anything is on the ground," he said. "This aircraft was five miles out and all of a sudden we have no response to that aircraft." Another man's voice said: "All I can tell you is the aircraft was over the marker and we're not talking to them now." The controller then tells other planes the Dash 8 "didn't make the airport." "Cactus, did you find Colgan?" he says to the ****pit crew of one flight. "Unfortunately, they said he went down about right over the marker," the crew member responds. The tape was played on U.S. television networks. All 48 people on the Colgan flight and one person on the ground were killed when the plane crashed into a house in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center and burst into flames. Sounds eerily similar to what happened to my dad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsTerps26 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 My friend is from buffalo. He had a friend in that plane from high school. Also, the plane struck his cousin's best friends house (Wielinski's residence), only a mile or two from where he lived back in buffalo, and knew the father well. He's devastated. What a tragic event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Jam Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 BREAKING NEWS: Passenger jet crashes in London. Looks like everyone got off this one okay, though.. but seriously.. what are the odds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 BREAKING NEWS:Passenger jet crashes in London. Looks like everyone got off this one okay, though.. but seriously.. what are the odds? I've checked Reuters, etc and don't see it. Gotta link TJ ? :slap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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