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Title: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: jtmal0723 on February 13, 2009, 12:55:27 AM

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/us_world/NATLPlane-Crashes-in-Upstate-New-York.html (http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/us_world/NATLPlane-Crashes-in-Upstate-New-York.html)

http://cbs3.com/topstories/continental.crash.NY.2.934370.html (http://cbs3.com/topstories/continental.crash.NY.2.934370.html)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/13/plane.crash.new.york/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/13/plane.crash.new.york/index.html)

This is breaking news at this time... oy  :no:

Title: Re: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: Alejandro on February 13, 2009, 04:13:14 AM

my condolences goes out to all the families who lost loved ones in this horrific tragedy  :cry: :cry3:

Title: Re: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: wxmediafan on February 13, 2009, 08:22:57 AM

Such a tragic event.  Definitely wasn't what I enjoyed waking up to first thing on the news this morning :no:

Title: Re: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: Gil on February 13, 2009, 08:50:34 AM

THAT's the main reason why I don't fly.

Title: Re: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: Localonthe8s on February 13, 2009, 12:22:50 PM

I agree, very tragic indeed. Weather might be a factor for the crash. One of the passengers was also a 9/11 widow.

Title: Re: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: toxictwister00 on February 13, 2009, 03:56:51 PM

Planes are safer than cars huh? Sure......... This is why I'm not getting on a plane. My sincerest condolences goes out to the victim's families. :itsok:

Title: Re: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: TWCToday on February 13, 2009, 06:16:23 PM

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Since 1978, over 2.5 BILLION passengers have traveled on the airlines world wide. This represents about 15 million individual flights. In that 30 year span of time there have only been a few dozen airline crashes where fatalities occurred, and only a few thousand people have been killed or seriously injured. Therefore, your chances of being a passenger on a fatal flight is perhaps one in a million.

Statistically, you have a greater chance of being killed on the ground by a bolt of lightning. To put it in perspective, roughly 30,000 people have been killed in car accidents in the USA in 2008. That's the equivalent of two Boeing 747's loaded with passengers crashing and killing everyone on board, each and every week of the year.

Title: Re: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: Jonathan on February 13, 2009, 08:30:04 PM

One of the deaths was a very well-known 9/11 widow. This is just flat-out depressing. :(

All (and I mean all) condolences are out to the families who lost their loved ones in this tragic crash.

Title: Re: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: lfmusiclover on February 13, 2009, 08:49:27 PM

Tragic indeed. IMO, given the conditions at the time, I'm not so sure that craft should've been allowed to fly.

Title: Re: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: TWCToday on February 13, 2009, 09:11:33 PM

Quote from: lfmusiclover on February 13, 2009, 08:49:27 PM

Tragic indeed. IMO, given the conditions at the time, I'm not so sure that craft should've been allowed to fly.

Rime ice was reported by other planes in the area and likely affected this flight. I imagine since this plane was smaller, the effects were greater. Makes you wonder how (and if) air traffic controllers and pilots take this is to account when landing and taking off.

Title: Re: 49 Dead After Plane Crashes into a home in upstate NY
Post by: Localonthe8s on February 13, 2009, 11:19:59 PM

yea, it seems ice may have accumulated in the engines cuasing it to stop working.