The Crash of Flight 3407

CREDIT: Gary Wiepert, Reuters [via]

Last night, Con­ti­nen­tal Flight 3407 crashed in route from Newark to Buf­falo Nia­gara Inter­na­tional Air­port, just a few miles from its sched­uled des­ti­na­tion. The crash site is just five or six miles from where I grew up, in a suburb of Buf­falo, NY.

The Buf­falo News has a living topic page ded­i­cated to cov­er­age of the event, which they are updat­ing with arti­cles, photos, video and other resources, as they are put up. They also started live blog­ging the story, and link­ing to out­side resources pro­vided by cit­i­zen journalists.

CNN is car­ry­ing live video from the local NBC affliate.

My heart goes out to the vic­tims, their fam­i­lies and the nearby com­mu­ni­ties. It’s impor­tant to remem­ber that these things rarely happen, but when they do, espe­cially so close to home, it’s impos­si­ble not to feel sad.