Amazon Prime Air Cargo Plane Crashes in Texas, Three Dead (weather.com)

An anonymous reader quotes Weather.com: An Amazon Prime Air cargo plane crashed Saturday afternoon into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, as it approached Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Three crew members aboard the plane did not survive the crash, the Chamber County sheriff told WJTV. Air traffic controllers lost radar and radio contact with Atlas Air Flight 3591 shortly before 12:45 p.m. CST. The 767 jetliner was arriving from Miami when the crash occurred 30 miles southeast of the airport, according to a statement by the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Re:It was me, I did it.

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Where will they bury the survivors?

I don't think that burying survivors is legal.

Not Amazon Air

[kqc7011]

It was Atlas Air Flight 3591 a contract flight for Amazon.

Re:Not Amazon Air

[SScorpio]

Amazon doesn't operate the flights. They contract that out to Atlas and two others. The plane was likely dedicated to Amazon Air flights and had an Amazon Air livery painted on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Re:It was me, I did it.

[Anonymous Coward]

[Disclaimer: I'm not the GP AC.]

You may have just been whooshed. The joke is "a plane crashes on the border of <insert two places you don't like>. Where do they bury the survivors?"

Breaking news links

[nuntius]

Condolences to those who knew the pilots. Fortunately no victims on the ground.

Its too soon to say what caused this tragedy. Weather? Package? Other?

Whatever it was, the plane appears to have suddenly gone from a mile high to ground impact in about 10 seconds.

https://www.flightradar24.com/...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/2...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.click2houston.com/...

https://www.flightglobal.com/n...

I have a family member in Air Traffic Control

[t00le]

I asked a family member in Air Traffic Control (ATC) on what happens from an ATC perspective when this type of thing happens. It just happens that my family member knew the protocols and could share what is available publicly since they were working at the time of the accident.

They were under the Houston Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON). This facility handles aircraft after departure usually up to 17,000 feet and arrivals descending from 17,000 feet. On the ATC tapes, you can hear them call “Giant 3591” several times but no response. Then they ask a United flight if he was picking up an ELT (Emergency Locator Transmitter). After a crash, the aircraft automatically sends a signal on a dedicated frequency so that it can be found. Additionally, we would call any nearby aircraft/helicopter to report coordinates and what they see to initiate response teams.

https://flightaware.com/live/f...