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
Ntsb, said that the plane was at about 6500 feet, had the pilot radioed air Traffic Control told them he was having engage problems engine problems and needed to return to West Hampton Beach airport, the plane lost altitude hitting lirr post at oyster bay road crossing on Hicksville Bethpage border. I did not realize what was going on, my coworker saw the plane upside down going ast the windy, he ran, he said that plane is going down call 911. Reporter the plane burst into flames, firefighters quickly responded. The pilot did not survive the crash, but the passenger, identified as Carl Giordano did and rushed to a local hospital some a small plane tried to land west of the road here clipped some of the Railroad Truck infrastructure. Reporter the ntsb said that pilot made the distress call at 7 47 in morning but by then it was too late, it covered the lirr Railroad Tracks and interrupted service, it was lucky no more lives were lost. There was no train at that point but the crossing was
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
You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the forecast. Hot day. Day three of our hot wife. It started saturday. Temperatures around 80 to start the day. Normal high is about ten cooler than that. 78 canarsie. 75 cambria heights. 81 whitestone, Staten Island, down the jersey shore, from 78 to 72 degrees. 68 up to the north around poughkeepsie. So, we are looking at a hot day today. We will get into the mid90s easily today. You tack on the humidity, it will feel like 100. Thats right. Be careful. We could get to 95, 96 degrees, break a record high. We will talk about that coming up. Debbie duhaime is in for heather. We will start out telling you everything is back on track l. I. R. R. On the Ronkonkoma Branch after problems from yesterday. Metro branch, Waterbury Branch ongoing construction in bridgeport. George, lincoln and holland moving okay. Number 1 trains, no trains at 14th to south ferry. That is Maintenance Work going o
Temperature at 6 00 of 78 degrees. Thats how we will start this hour. We are looking at probably that is the overnight low. 80 whitestone. 79 ridgewood queens. Staten island you are at 74. 71 white plains to rockland county. 89 to 90 by noontime this afternoon. 90 to 96 degrees. With the humidity, it will feel like 100. Yes, it will be a heat wave. If we hit 96 that breaks the mark of 95 net is 1944, just after the second world war. That record stood for a while. We luck take about how long the heat and humidity will last. Debbie duhaime is in for heather. Bridge. Brooklyn bridge into brooklyn car. The ramps from the fdr are closed to the Brooklyn Bridge. Fdr northbound through the 70s an accident. Look at the solid line of traffic on the fdr north through the 70s. On the 5 train uptown delays 180th. Time. A look at the inbound side of the gowanus, inbound side of the gowanus as we go to the webcams still moving okay. Lets go up to john del giorno. He is high above the brooklyn good mo