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wickedflea) wrote2001-11-12 10:11 am
wickedflea) wrote2001-11-12 10:11 am
fuuuuuuuuuck
from abcnews.com:
Jet Crash in NYC Borough of Queens
Plane Down Near JFK Airport
N E W Y O R K, Nov. 12 — An American Airlines jet departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport crashed in a heavily populated section of the New York City borough of Queens at 9:17 a.m. ET, emergency officials said, and there was no report on the number of passengers and crew on board.
The jet, an Airbus 300, departed JFK at 9:15 a.m., officials said, when it crashed into an area populated with many homes and businesses. The American Airlines web site said Flight 587 was headed for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
The plane crashed near Beach 129th Street and Newport Avenue, in the Rockaways section of Queens. There were no reports of injuries at the scene.
Thick black smoke could be seen billowing above the crash site for miles and several buildings were said to be on fire. Emergency crews raced to the scene.
Harriet Cohen, a Queens resident who lives near the airport and about 10 blocks from the crash site, said she was eating breakfast in her home when she thought she heard the Concorde leaving the airport. After hearing a terrible bang, she told her husband: "Oh my, I think it must have broken the sound barrier." But then the house shook, Cohen said. "I looked outside, and 10 blocks from us, there was black thick smoke rising up into the sky."
Minutes after the crash, all three New York City-area airports — Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark — were closed. Airports in Washington, D.C., remained open.
The incident comes two months after two hijacked jets rammed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan killing about 4,500.
Jet Crash in NYC Borough of Queens
Plane Down Near JFK Airport
N E W Y O R K, Nov. 12 — An American Airlines jet departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport crashed in a heavily populated section of the New York City borough of Queens at 9:17 a.m. ET, emergency officials said, and there was no report on the number of passengers and crew on board.
The jet, an Airbus 300, departed JFK at 9:15 a.m., officials said, when it crashed into an area populated with many homes and businesses. The American Airlines web site said Flight 587 was headed for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
The plane crashed near Beach 129th Street and Newport Avenue, in the Rockaways section of Queens. There were no reports of injuries at the scene.
Thick black smoke could be seen billowing above the crash site for miles and several buildings were said to be on fire. Emergency crews raced to the scene.
Harriet Cohen, a Queens resident who lives near the airport and about 10 blocks from the crash site, said she was eating breakfast in her home when she thought she heard the Concorde leaving the airport. After hearing a terrible bang, she told her husband: "Oh my, I think it must have broken the sound barrier." But then the house shook, Cohen said. "I looked outside, and 10 blocks from us, there was black thick smoke rising up into the sky."
Minutes after the crash, all three New York City-area airports — Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark — were closed. Airports in Washington, D.C., remained open.
The incident comes two months after two hijacked jets rammed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan killing about 4,500.