Friday, February 13, 2009

Deadly Plane Crash in Buffalo

News of this broke a little after midnight. Ace was one of the first to break word of this on the 'sphere. Here's some of what he had as of 12:34 am...
It was Continental Flight 3407 (operated under Colgan Air), from Newark to Buffalo (a commuter flight). A 74-seat Bombardier Q-400.

It crashed into a home in Clarence Center, NY (a Buffalo suburb) at around 10:10 p.m. (Eastern time), on Long Road (or Street)

Some contact numbers:

1 800 621-3263 (the number for families) (FNC is saying the last 4 digits are 3236) Update: FNC is wrong...it's the first number.
713 324-5080 (number for the media to call)
716 741-8930 (number for Clarence residents only)

One person on the ground killed and others injured.

Commenters at his house have more to offer in the way of information and analysis.

MORE THIS MORNING: Fox News is reporting no survivors as of about 30 minutes ago. All 49 travelers and crew killed.

To make this worse, if that's possible, I also heard via Quinn & Rose on the radio that Beverly Eckert, widow of 9/11 WTC victim Sean Rooney and crusading advocate for her fellow bereaved from then on, was also on that plane.

Amazingly, with the houses in that area packed as tightly as they are, only one house was hit and only one person on the ground lost their life.

Please join me in prayer for a moment, for all those touched by this tragedy.