Continental flight 3407 crashed late last night into a house in the Buffalo area while trying to come in for a landing.  All 48 people on board the plane were killed and one person on the ground was as well. The flight was out of Newark and had 44 passengers and a crew of 4.

The crash, which occurred as a light snow fell in the area, was the second major one in a month in New York State, coming weeks after the Jan. 15 forced landing of a US Airways jet into the Hudson River in which all 155 people on board were pulled to safety.

Sandra Baker, who lives on Railroad Street, two blocks from the site of the crash on Thursday, said: ‘It was just like a huge great big crash, a boom.’

The crash was the deadliest since 2006 when another commuter jet crash took the lives of 29 people in Kentucky.

takepart to learn more about the crash at The New York Times and go after the jump for some news video. Read the rest of this entry >>