"The sky was red," say one witness in the New York Times report on the crash of commuter flight 3407 out of Newark, NJ.The National Post gathers Twitter records of in-flight audio, a YouTube video of the crash aftermath and detailed information about the flight path and the plane. Forty-four passengers, four crew members and one person on the ground were killed in the crash.
The Times report includes details from a chilling TV interview with a man whose sister was a passenger, held before the deaths were confirmed:
At a command center where officials gathered after the accident, Chris Kausner told CNN that his sister was on the flight. He said she was connecting from Jacksonville, Fla., where she was a law student.
“Right now I’m thinking the worst,” Mr. Kausner said. “And I’m thinking of the fact that my mother has to fly in from Florida and what am I going to tell my two sons.”
When a reporter asked Mr. Kausner how his family was taking the news, he said: “I heard my mother make a sound into the phone that I had never heard before. So, not good.”
This article appears in Feb 11-17, 2009.