happened to see that the co-pilot of the plane was trying to get out of the window. i took the ladder, a small 12-foot ladder and put it up to the nose of the airplane. and i was able to take a few steps up and pull him out and cradle him like a baby and bring him down and walk him with another fireman to safety. the captain and senior flight attendant are among the victims. i remember feeling just a lot of sorrow. two of my crew members died. so many passengers died. with the focus on the 737, few even know there is a crushed turbo prop underneath it. the small plane is twisted and mangled beyond recognition. there are no survivors. i did not know that we hit another aircraft until we were in the terminal and they were doing triage on us and i asked about the crew and they said which crew? coming up trying to figure out exactly what happened.
done before the accident. this was a totally preventable accident. across the country and nearly two decades later, another crash caused by human error. continental connection flight 3407 nears the buffalo airport for landing. the turbo prop suddenly pitches up, stalls, and goes into a series of terrifying rolls. the pilot fights to gain control, but the plane plummets 1,600 feet into a house. the aircraft was five miles out and all of the sudden we have no response from that aircraft. february 12, 2009, winter storms delay flight 3407 for two hours at newark international
attendant drowns. august 2005, abatr 75 turbo prop fitted with the wrong fuel gauge runs out of fuel and ditches in the sea off the coast of silly. 69 on board are killed, seven airline employee, the copilot receive prison sentences up to ten years. more than half a century ago there was another ditching and amazingly the entire incident is caught on camera. the old coast guard film is startling but it doesn t tell the whole story. this graphic animation shows what it might have looked like if you had been in the middle of the pacific ocean on october 16th, 1956 watching pan am flight 983 go down in open
harris: new video of a deadly plane crash in south florida. this was breaking as we went live for you last night on fox report. now smart phone video capturing the scene in fort lauderdale moments after the crash. a massive fireball as you see coming from the small plane that slammed into the parking lot and then the building. all three people on board killed. no one on the ground was hurt. seven parked cars and a boat on a trailer burned. we re told the turbo prop had engine trouble before it took off from fort lauderdale executive airport yesterday. it tried to turn around and make an emergency landing, but obviously that didn t work out. it is day four in a rape trial that s dividing one town. a judge holding a rare saturday session in the case against two high school football players. they re accused of raping a 16-year-old girl after a night of party not guilty august. hours ago, the alleged victim on the stand telling her side of the story. mike tobin live for us in the jephs
while on the runway, pilots are encouraged, though not required, to remind air traffic control that they are waiting for instructions. these types of procedures were completely capable of being done before the accident. this was a totally preventable accident. across the country and nearly two decades later, another crash caused by human error. continental connection flight 3407 nears the buffalo airport for landing. the turbo prop suddenly pitches up, stalls, and goes into a series of terrifying rolls. the pilot fights to gain control, but the plane plummets 1,600 feet into a house. the aircraft was five miles out and all of the sudden we have no response from that aircraft. february 12, 2009, winter