Continental Connection Flight 3407 Crashes while Approaching Buffalo Airport, All Passengers and Crew Killed

Continental Connection flight 3407 crashed while approaching the Buffalo Airport late Thursday night, slamming into a house and killing all 49 people aboard the plane and a man inside the house.

The pilot was said to be about five minutes from the airport when the plane, en route from Newark airport in New Jersey, began experiencing trouble and nosedived into the Clarence Center neighborhood, a suburb of Buffalo.

There has been no information as to what caused flight 3407 to crash but weather conditions at the time included snow and fog. The twin-prop Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft reportedly dropped off the radar and airport officials tried to locate the plane before learning of its fate.

David Luce, a man living just 150 yards from the crash site, described the crash saying “It sounded quite loud, and then the sound stopped.” He continued, “Then one or two seconds later, there was a thunderous explosion. I thought something hit our house. It shook our whole house.”

One victim aboard flight 3407 was said to be 9/11 widow Beverly Eckert who had been traveling to Buffalo to celebrate what would have been her husband’s 58^th birthday.

Chris Kausner, who had been awaiting the arrival of his sister, said he was forced to call his parents who had been vacationing in Florida. Kausner said when he broke the news to his mother she made “a noise on the phone that I never heard her make before.”

An investigation into the crash is now underway but officials still have to wait for the scene to cool down before any kind of recovery can begin.

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