God Bless the victims, families, friends and loved ones. ONE YEAR LATER WE REMEMBER..... On Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 at 10:20 p.m., Continental flight 3407, en route from Newark, N.J., spun from the sky and crashed into a home as it made its approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport. All 49 people on board the plane were killed, as was one man in the house in Clarence Center. It was the worst aviation accident in Western New York history.
Added by Pararescue on February 12, 2010 at 12:00am —
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Buffalo radio station WBEN-930AM listeners have overwhelming chosen the first responders who responded to the crash of
Continental Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, NY on February 12, 2009 as their "Persons-of-the-Year."
Congratulations to all those involved in the response effort.…
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Added by Tiger Schmittendorf on December 30, 2009 at 1:57pm —
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From www.tigerschmittendorf.com:
Continental Flight 3407 crashed into a home in Clarence Center, NY around 10:20pm on Thursday-February 12, 2009 - killing 50 people and changing the lives of thousands more, including mine.
I responded in the first wave of emergency services personnel sent to help restore order to the chaos that the crash created.
Frankly, I’m not ready to write about this experience…
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Added by Tiger Schmittendorf on February 25, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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Thursday night, Continental Communter Flight 3407 crashed into a house less than two blocks from the firehouse in Clarence Center, New York. This incident killed 50 people and injured several others. It also destroyed a Dash 8 aircraft and the home into which it crashed.
How many of us have heard the phrase "
It can't happen here"? This can be heard when firefighters and medics don't want to take NIMS training or to consider EOC or logistics roles because "
That's… Continue
Added by Ben Waller on February 14, 2009 at 10:34am —
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