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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Teterboro Airport
« on: August 21, 2009, 07:51:21 AM »
Plane crashes while trying to land at Teterboro; 2 injured
Friday, August 21, 2009
Last updated: Friday August 21, 2009, 7:30 AM
BY TOM DAVIS AND JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM STAFF WRITERS
The Record
Two people were seriously injured when their small plane overshot the runway at Teterboro Airport, hit a tree and came barreling down onto the lawn of a business on Route 46 early this morning.
Both the pilot and co-pilot suffered severe burns; one was airlifted to St. Barnabas Medical Center and the other to Hackensack University Medical Center, police said.
The Federal Aviation Administration, the state Department of Transportation, state and county police and local firefighters are on the scene. Police are waiting for the National Transportation Safety Board to arrive at the airport and take control of the investigation.
Little Ferry police say the twin-engine Beechcraft crashed while trying to land. Police believe the flight had originated in Reading, Pa., and was carrying blood specimens for Qwest Diagnostics. The pilot and co-pilot were the only ones aboard, and everyone on the ground appears to be safe.
The injured were able to crawl out of the wreckage after the plane fell short of landing on runway 19.
The accident comes two weeks after an air collision over the Hudson River killed nine people. Federal investigators said a Teterboro controller failed to notice “potential traffic conflicts” before the crash.
Federal investigators have probed more than twice the number of incidents that raised safety concerns at Teterboro than they have at New York City’s two major airports since 2004, according to National Transportation Safety Board records.
Police have cordoned off the portion of Route 46 where the plane disintegrated and erupted in flames. The mangled remains of the plane are scattered along the road and on the lawn of Flomo Corp, 698 Route 46.
The investigations underscore the concerns aviation advocates, controllers and experts have raised about Teterboro, a small general aviation airport that is one of the busiest in the country, and is in close proximity to three major airports.
Those airports — John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty and LaGuardia — have more than twice the amount of traffic and, unlike Teterboro, cater to larger commercial aircraft.
Route 46 is open, and the airport has resumed operations.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Last updated: Friday August 21, 2009, 7:30 AM
BY TOM DAVIS AND JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM STAFF WRITERS
The Record
Two people were seriously injured when their small plane overshot the runway at Teterboro Airport, hit a tree and came barreling down onto the lawn of a business on Route 46 early this morning.
Both the pilot and co-pilot suffered severe burns; one was airlifted to St. Barnabas Medical Center and the other to Hackensack University Medical Center, police said.
The Federal Aviation Administration, the state Department of Transportation, state and county police and local firefighters are on the scene. Police are waiting for the National Transportation Safety Board to arrive at the airport and take control of the investigation.
Little Ferry police say the twin-engine Beechcraft crashed while trying to land. Police believe the flight had originated in Reading, Pa., and was carrying blood specimens for Qwest Diagnostics. The pilot and co-pilot were the only ones aboard, and everyone on the ground appears to be safe.
The injured were able to crawl out of the wreckage after the plane fell short of landing on runway 19.
The accident comes two weeks after an air collision over the Hudson River killed nine people. Federal investigators said a Teterboro controller failed to notice “potential traffic conflicts” before the crash.
Federal investigators have probed more than twice the number of incidents that raised safety concerns at Teterboro than they have at New York City’s two major airports since 2004, according to National Transportation Safety Board records.
Police have cordoned off the portion of Route 46 where the plane disintegrated and erupted in flames. The mangled remains of the plane are scattered along the road and on the lawn of Flomo Corp, 698 Route 46.
The investigations underscore the concerns aviation advocates, controllers and experts have raised about Teterboro, a small general aviation airport that is one of the busiest in the country, and is in close proximity to three major airports.
Those airports — John F. Kennedy International, Newark Liberty and LaGuardia — have more than twice the amount of traffic and, unlike Teterboro, cater to larger commercial aircraft.
Route 46 is open, and the airport has resumed operations.
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