NEW YORK Buffalo

A plane has crashed upon a residential area near Buffalo in New York State. One person on the ground was killed and all on the plane – 49 people died. Fire fighters are in attendance on the scene.

The Q400 Bombardier aircraft was flying late Thursday from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to Buffalo Niagara International Airport in light snow, fog and 17 mph winds. It crashed around 10:10 p.m. (0300 GMT Friday), about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the airport. It had 44 passengers and a crew of four.

A US website which records live conversations between planes and air traffic control crews posted a recording of what it said was the flight’s female pilot communicating with ground crew in Buffalo, which showed nothing unusual before contact was suddenly lost.

Within minutes of the crash this youtube video was in a news site.

Guardian UK video content