Feb 13, 2009 -
CLARENCE, New York - A commuter plane "basically dove" into a Buffalo-area house while coming in for a landing, sparking a fiery explosion that killed all 49 people on board and one person on the ground, an emergency official said Friday.
It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the United States in 2 1/2 years.
Witnesses heard the twin turboprop aircraft sputtering before it went down in light snow and fog around 10:20 p.m.
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Apr 17, 2009 -
Updated again!
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Associated Press
OAKLAND PARK, Fla. – A South Florida man whose home was sliced in two by a small plane says his nephew left the home only shortly before the crash.
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Sep 20, 2008 -
Adding new info to thread as it becomes available:
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A Learjet has crashed while departing from a South Carolina airport, killing four people and injuring two others including a former member of rock band Blink 182.
NBC News reported that Travis Barker, an ex-drummer with the band who starred in MTV reality show "Meet the Barkers", was aboard the plane.
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Sep 20, 2008 -
They are both in a burn center in Augusta GA in critical condition. Four were killed in this South Carolina plane crash. Wow.
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Jul 18, 2007 -
Hey girls, i've been gone for a while, but I couldn't let it pass by without telling you how shocking and terrifying was the last night for me...
An Airbus 320 with at least 176 people on board skidded off a runway while landing Tuesday night at the main airport in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, and crashed into an office building and a gas station across a highway, setting off a conflagration that took firefighters more than six hours to bring under control. (Times)
It was 3 blocks away from my home...the black smoke, that smell of burning, of death, the pouring rain...you have no idea how sad it was...
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Feb 13, 2009 -
Why is the media repeatedly saying, "female pilot" about the Buffalo plane crash? Why do they feel they have to add that? We don't hear male pilot, white, black, hispanic, asian, etc.
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Nov 09, 2009 -
I thought this would be an interesting tie in from Tulipe's earlier post.
On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall — the stark, menacing symbol of the Cold War — came crashing down, suddenly and dramatically.
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Oct 28, 2009 -
KABUL (AFP) – Eight new fatalities Tuesday made October the deadliest month yet for US forces in Afghanistan, as President Barack Obama announced a key meeting with army chiefs to discuss his fateful troop decision.
The latest attacks, which were claimed by the Taliban, came the day after 14 US soldiers and narcotics agents died in helicopter crashes, piling pressure on Obama as he mulls sending tens of thousands more troops.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama had summoned the Joint Chiefs of Staff to a meeting on Friday to get their input as he winds down a painstaking review before making his decision on troop levels.
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Jan 15, 2009 -
Watch live now.
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22887506#22887506
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Aug 13, 2009 -
The wedding tradition of throwing a bride's bouquet for luck proved to be unlucky at one Italian wedding when the bride's bouquet caused a plane to explode and crash in Montioni Park in Suvereto, Tuscany.
According to a report by the BBC, the bride and groom hired a small plane to fly over the wedding reception and throw the bouquet to the female guests. But instead of falling to the ground, the bouquet was sucked into the plane's engine, causing it to catch fire and explode, the story said.
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