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

Posted by EditorDavid on from the sad-news dept.

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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  1. Pilot didn't have time to go to the toilet by Hognoxious · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perhaps the pilot didn't have time to go to the toilet so he was peeing in a bottle.

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  2. Where’s my stuff? by dlleigh · · Score: -1, Troll

    February 23, 2019 — 5:00 p.m. CST: Arrived at the bottom of Trinity Bay

  3. Amazon Primeship shot out of the air... by Grog6 · · Score: -1, Troll

    A FedEx plane was seen circling the wreckage, looking for survivors.

    Access to the area was delayed due to an unexpected number of broken down UPS trucks.

    Film at 11. :)

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  4. Re:Nice job editors by iggymanz · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is nothing about this story that even merits it being on slashdot. that is the only mistake the "editors" made.

  5. Re:Possible mechanical problem by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's unreliable info, but if true it would point towards a maintenance or mechanical problem with the plane, rather than pilot error.

    I wonder what's the likelihood that the underlying cause is due to this Amazon Prime plane not actually being a genuine Boeing 767, but instead just a Chinese counterfeit.