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05-31-2005, 12:27 PM
Plane Crashes At Teterboro Airport
Twin-Engine Plane Was On Final Approach
May 31, 2005 12:13 pm US/Eastern
TETERBORO (CBS) Breaking news from New Jersey, after a small plane crashes at Teterboro Airport. Moonachie police say the plane crashed and burst into flames at the south end of runway #1 around 11:30 a.m.
Cops said two people were aboard the plane, and one was injured and being taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. That person's condition was not immediately available.
The plane, a Swearingen SA 226T aircraft, was on final approach to the airport when the pilot reported engine problems, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The airport is now closed, and all air travel is suspended around Teterboro. Emergency crews are there, with people from the Port Authority joining local firefighters and police officers. Jim Smith flying nearby in Chopper 2 says that they've been spraying foam on the plane to control the flames.
The FAA Web site identified the plane as a multi-engine turbo-prop registered to Maci Leasing Corp. in Edison. There was no phone listing for such a business.
The accident was the third at Teterboro Airport this year. On Feb. 2, 20 people were injured when a corporate jet carrying 11 people skidded off a runway during an aborted takeoff, shot across a busy road and slammed into a warehouse.
On March 8, a business jet overshot a runway and stopped in snow and mud about 200 feet past the end of Runway 1. The two passengers and two crew members walked away uninjured.
Twin-Engine Plane Was On Final Approach
May 31, 2005 12:13 pm US/Eastern
TETERBORO (CBS) Breaking news from New Jersey, after a small plane crashes at Teterboro Airport. Moonachie police say the plane crashed and burst into flames at the south end of runway #1 around 11:30 a.m.
Cops said two people were aboard the plane, and one was injured and being taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. That person's condition was not immediately available.
The plane, a Swearingen SA 226T aircraft, was on final approach to the airport when the pilot reported engine problems, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The airport is now closed, and all air travel is suspended around Teterboro. Emergency crews are there, with people from the Port Authority joining local firefighters and police officers. Jim Smith flying nearby in Chopper 2 says that they've been spraying foam on the plane to control the flames.
The FAA Web site identified the plane as a multi-engine turbo-prop registered to Maci Leasing Corp. in Edison. There was no phone listing for such a business.
The accident was the third at Teterboro Airport this year. On Feb. 2, 20 people were injured when a corporate jet carrying 11 people skidded off a runway during an aborted takeoff, shot across a busy road and slammed into a warehouse.
On March 8, a business jet overshot a runway and stopped in snow and mud about 200 feet past the end of Runway 1. The two passengers and two crew members walked away uninjured.