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Plane crash in upstate NY kills 49 people

what's with the fucking plane crashes? enough already.

would love to know the cause. NTSB officials arriving right now, news says.

i heard something about snow/ice messing up the plane.

pretty tragic

as terrible as it is, this is first deadly commercial airliner crash in the u.s. in nearly three years, i think.

As horrible as it is, the plane could have taken out a lot more houses on the ground. Luckily it nosed dived and only hit only house.

this plane was barely a minute away from the runway, too

isnt it statistically the safest way to travel?

think so.

seriously, what are the odds that it hits exactly 1 house??

this was only speculated by someone on another forum, but this might be the house
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.0 ... 7368818314

it's pretty eerie how one of the women who died was a widow of a man who died on 9/11...it was his fiftieth birthday (i believe)

oh my GOD.

This has got an eery "Final Destination" vibe to it.

9/11 widow among Buffalo flight victims

CLARENCE CENTER, New York (CNN) -- Friends, relatives and acquaintances were shocked to hear the news that Beverly Eckert, the widow of a September 11 victim, was aboard the Continental flight to Buffalo, New York, that crashed Thursday night.



A resident of Stamford, Connecticut, Eckert was the widow of Buffalo native Sean Rooney, who died at the World Trade Center. After that attack, Eckert co-founded "Voices of September 11," an advocacy group for survivors and 9/11 families.

Valerie Lucznikowska, a member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, said Friday she was "horribly saddened" by news of the Buffalo crash.

Lucznikowska said she, Eckert and another woman traveled to Washington last Friday for a meeting between 9/11 family members and President Barack Obama.

Speaking at the White House on Friday, Obama said Eckert was aboard the doomed airplane. He called her a "tireless advocate" of 9/11 families.

Lucznikowska called Eckert "truly a wonderful person. She was someone who was trying to make society better."

Lucznikowska, whose nephew died in the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, said Eckert asked Obama whether the group would have ongoing meetings with his administration. Obama said meetings would continue, even though they wouldn't necessarily be with him.

Eckert backed Peaceful Tomorrows' effort to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and end the military commissions there, Lucznikowska said. The group elaborated on this stance in a signed letter to Obama, and Eckert gave a presidential aide a separate letter listing her own concerns, Lucznikowska said.

She was traveling to Buffalo for a weekend celebration of what would have been her husband's 58th birthday, according to the Buffalo News -- the first news agency to report her presence on the fatal flight.

The newspaper quoted Eckert's sister, Sue Bourque, as saying: "We know she was on that plane," even though the family hadn't received official confirmation.

Eckert also planned to take part in presenting a scholarship award at Canisius High School that was established in honor of her late husband, who was a Canisius alumni, according to the school's president, John Knight.

Knight said he couldn't confirm Eckert's presence on the plane. However, he said, the school postponed the scholarship presentation that had been scheduled for Friday. He said Eckert also had been active in a capital campaign fund-raising effort.

"She struck me as a wonderful, beautiful person who clearly wanted to do something to remember her husband in a way that would have an everlasting impact on our community," Knight said.

Jay Winuk, who lost his brother in the World Trade Center attacks, said Eckert was "a terrific advocate for the 9/11 family community."

Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashed late Thursday about seven miles northeast of Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all 49 passengers and crew members aboard and one person on the ground.

Also on the plane was Ellyce Kausner, 24, her brother Chris confirmed. The Buffalo News reported that she was a graduate of Clarence High School and Canisius College, who was studying law at Florida Coastal University in Jacksonville.

"My parents are on vacation in Florida, and I had to call down there and tell my father what was going on," Chris Kausner told CNN affiliate WIVB-TV.

When asked how his parents were handling the news, a shaken Kausner responded: "To tell you the truth, I heard my mother make a sound that I have never heard before." Watch victim's brother discuss delivering tragic news »

The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office established a command post at the scene and had investigators there, a statement from the office said. Officials said relatives of passengers aboard the flight should call 800-621-3263 for information

holy shit

my parents still live in clarence and i grew up there. They are ok even though they live very close to the scene.

very sad story and the 9/11 widow is a terrible story on top of a horrible situation.

As they release more names, it'll all sink in. Buffalo is a tight knit community and the word is most people on the flight were from Buffalo. Keep the area in your thoughts.

I don't know, the odds of it being that particular woman are exactly the odds of it being any other particular person.

The house is right down the street from my co-workers house. She's freaking out a little bit, thinking it easily could have been her and her three kids. Very sad.