Yikes!
Forty-nine people reportedly died when an aircraft identified as a Continental Airlines flight crashed into a house in Clarence Center shortly after 10 p.m. last night, starting a huge fire which poured thick smoke throughout the hamlet.
Unconfirmed reports from a source at Buffalo Niagara International Airport said that the dead included 44 passengers, four crew members and a person on the ground.
County Executive Chris Collins said that there may have been as many as 50 people aboard the plane and crew members had reported mechanical problems as they approached Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Several injured people were taken from the scene to Erie County Medical Center for treatment.
via 49 killed as plane crashes into Clarence Center home : Home: The Buffalo News.
CNN, MSNBC, and FOX are all reporting… As is NYT.
Update: Raw Video of Crash Area: (via MetaFilter)
Update #2: This is the Air Traffic Controller Audio from the time of the crash, there is a lot of dead air in this recording, The 3407 is the aircraft in question. The pilot is female, there is no hint of problems. The recording gets a over half in, before they realize something is up:
Update #3: It seems that now other Blogs are covering the story: Mudville Gazette, TVNewser, Scared Monkeys, JammieWearingFool, protein wisdom and more via Memeorandum