Lovely on this august 16. Good morning. Im rob nelson. And im michelle charlesworth. We just learned an indonesian airliner has lost contract with air Traffic Control. There are 49 passengers and five crew members on board the twin turbo prop plane. It last contact a little more than half an hour after taking off from the capital. It was over land and within the same province. Getting erie, these missing planes. We dont know the full story yet. Well monitor that throughout the morning. Another bizarre situation that we will have an eye on for you. With that a quick look at weather with miss freeze. The hot stuff continues. We were steamy yesterday and the sunshine. You had to seek out the shade to stay cool. Hot temperatures again today. Accuweather bumping up the high temperatures to close out the weekend. And starting with a real steam bath on monday. Temperatures in the middle to upper 90s. It really means were actually flirting with records here with the record being in the upper 9
Another person has been taken to the hospital. I want to get right to it and show you the incredible video. You can see here this small plane still on the rr tracks. A lot of Emergency Response here right now. It appears that this small plane went down maybe around 7 30, 8 00 this morning. Again were here in beth page it does appear it took out some of the Railroad Crossing signals as it came down. Whoever was flying this plane maybe tried to aim it here. Obviously there are houses all just right next to where the plane went down. Im hearing from my sources at least one person is dead. Another has been taken to the hospital. Nassau county executive is here on the scene. We spoke with him just a short time ago. Heres what he had to safety. Looks like a small plane tried to land here and clipped some of the Railroad Infrastructure and broke up. Reporter i want to show you the wreckage of the Small Plane Crash. A lot of Emergency Responders here right now trying to deal with cleaning this
A public airport in farmingdale. Eyewitness News Reporter n. J. Burkett is live in bethpage n. J. Reporter outside the crash scene you can see they are working to repair damaged crossing gates and damaged track. The goal tonight is to have a morning. But this crash was devastating. Service has been suspended all tonight. The pilot was killed in the flaming wreckage of his single engine plane moments after investigators say he tried to make an Emergency Landing on South Oyster Bay road. Instead, the plane missed the street and crashed in the middle of the main line of the long island railroad. But the desperate maneuver saved his passenger pulled to safety by an eyewitness to the crash. My coworker saw a plane the plane upside down. He said that plane is going down. At that point he ran out. He said call 911. By the time i got out here, i saw him pulling out the passenger. According to the faa, the plane was a four seater beach craft be 35. According to flight aware, registered to a cha
Second person, but the smoke and fire was too much. Reporter one person died. The survive a 55yearold man awake and rushed to the hospital. The person was pretty banged up. However, the person was still conscious but was in and out. Reporter investigators say the singleengine plane was headed from west hampton to morristown, new jersey, when the pilot reported trouble. Reported to farmingdale that they were experiencing difficulty maintaining altitude. Reporter today investigators surveyed the damage. Pieces of the plane scattered across the tracks near South Oyster Bay road, suspending service between hicksville and farmingdale. But an mta spokesperson says the crash could have been catastrophic. There was no train going through at that point, but the crossing was open. So, you know, there was a possibility there could have been cars going through. Reporter and because the crash happened on the liir tracks, the mta is investigating along with the faa. Lori bordonaro, news 4. And this
The granddaughter of Actor Morgan Freeman stabbed to death on a street in manhattan. Tonight the actor is speaking out about his loss as the family awaits charges against the suspect. First, a nightmare for tomorrows commute. The lirr service is back up and running tonight after a plane crashed on the tracks. Good evening im sandra bookman. Im rob powers. Service was fully restored to the Ronkonkoma Branch tonight. Plenty of headaches for people tonight. The mta releasing new images. The plane was decimated and the pilot killed and his name has not been released. One person survived the crash. Mta crews worked into the night to fix the tracks. Josh einiger is live for us at penn station for more. Reporter from looking at the pictures you can get a look at how colossal it was for them to get things moving for tomorrow morning. Its pretty much back on schedule and just in the nick of time for the monday morning ride to work. The train started moving again after dark along the lirr busy m