Deadly Buffalo Plane Crash - No Survivors - 48 people on board Killed - 50 Total Killed

CLARENCE, New York - A commuter plane crashed into a suburban Buffalo home and erupted in flames late Thursday, killing all 48 people aboard and one person on the ground, authorities said. Witnesses heard the twin turboprop aircraft sputtering before it went down in light snow and fog.

Flames silhouetted the shattered home after Continental Connection Flight 3407 plummeted into it around 10:20 p.m.

It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the United States since Aug. 27, 2006, when 49 people were killed after a Comair jetliner took off from a Lexington, Ky., runway that was too short.

"The whole sky was lit up orange," Bob Dworak, who lives less than a mile from the crash site, told The Associated Press. He said that residents of the neighborhood, about 10 miles from the Buffalo airport, were used to planes rumbling overhead, but he took note Thursday night when one sounded louder than usual and made some odd noises.

The 74-seat Q400 Bombardier aircraft was carrying 5,000 pounds of fuel and apparently exploded on impact, Erie County Executive Chris Collins said.

Firefighters got as close to the plane as they could, he said.

"They were shouting out to see if there were any survivors on the plane. Truly a very heroic effort, but there were no survivors," Collins said.

The aircraft, operated by Colgan Air, was flying from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to Buffalo Niagara International Airport in light snow, fog and 17 mph winds.

'There was a big bang'
"We were thinking it was just another plane," he said. "It kind of made some sputtering noises but they lower the landing gear over our house a lot so the noise from the planes a lot of time will change kind of drastically as they go over."

"All the sudden, there was a big bang, and the house shook," he said.

He 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," he said.

Amy Kudwa, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security in Washington said there was no indication terrorism was involved.

"All indications are that this was an air-safety event," she said.

Kudwa referred all other questions to the FAA.

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[pogo506]

i know they are all dead but what cause this to happen

[iHACK360]

ice on the wings

[aha45]

22 year old young child

[JohnyRockets123]

R.I.P.

[therealpsp1mp]

shut the fuck up.

[cruisemate]

A bombardier dash-8 plane.

In Scandinavia known as the crash-8.

Has crashed in Buffalo. Oups....

Scandinavian airlines grounded them as they where seen as unsafe and that SAS costumers hade lost faith in them.

[seriouslysillyass]

sadie your an idiot. this in no way was a terrorist act. the ntsb is already releasing information that there was significant ice build up on the leading edge of the wings. oh wait alqaida was hanging from a ballon chucking snowballs at the plane, or some other silly notion right moron

[Apink420]

R.I.P