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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.
This happened just West of me. Reports are sketchy but a witness said there was a sound like lightning. We have very light rain and no reports of a thunderstorm in the area.
The water at the impact site is only 1-5 feet deep. We used to get fresh oysters from there.
Looking at the overhead shots, I didn't see am impact crater. I would expect one because it's a marshy area.
No witnesses reported an impact fireball. When planes hit the ground, avgas hits the jets and it's BOOM!
The debris field shows very small pieces as if the plane had a catastrophic unplanned disassembly before crashing.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.