Volunteer firefighters attempt to put out flames from Continental Airlines Flight 3407 on Thursday Feb. 12, 2009, after it crashed into a home in Clarence Center, N.Y. killing all 49 people on board and one on the ground according to officials.
Volunteer firefighters attempt to put out the flames from Continental Airlines Flight 3407 on Thursday Feb. 12, 2009, after it crashed into a home in Clarence Center, N.Y. The commuter plane "basically dove" into a house while coming in for a landing, sparking the fiery explosion that killed all 49 people on board and one person on the ground, an emergency official said Friday.
Volunteer firefighters attempt to put out the flames from Continental Airlines Flight 3407 on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 after it crashed into a home in Clarence Center, N.Y.
Firefighters spray and foam at the scene where a plane crashed into a house and burned in Clarence Center, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
With a section of the tail visible, firefighters spray and foam the scene where a plane crashed into a house and burned in Clarence Center, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
Wreckage lays across the area as a plane burns after it crashed into a house in Clarence, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. The commuter plane crashed into a suburban home in Clarence, Buffalo, and erupted in flames late Thursday, killing all 49 people aboard and one person on the ground, authorities said.
The wreckage of Continental flight 3407 lies amid smoke at the scene after crashing into a suburban Buffalo home and erupting into flames late Thursday Feb. 12, 2009, killing all 49 people aboard and at least one person on the ground, according to authorities. The 74-seat Q400 Bombardier aircraft was flying from Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
Plane burns after it crashed into a house in Clarence Center, N.Y., Thursday Feb. 12, 2009.
The plane burns after it crashed into a house in Clarence Center, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
Smoke rises from a burning plane after it crashed into a house in Clarence Center, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
The home at 6038 Long Street in Clarence, Center, N.Y., is shown. A Continental commuter plane coming in for a landing nose-dived into the house in suburban Buffalo Thursday night, Feb. 12, 2009, sparking a fiery explosion that killed all people aboard and a person in the home.
Beverly Eckert, 50, of Stamford, Conn., holds a picture of her late husband Sean Rooney, 50, in Stamford, Conn., in this Friday, May 24, 2002, file photo. Eckert, one of the victims of Continental Flight 3407, was a Sept. 11 widow who lost her husband in the World Trade Center.
Family members leave the Buffalo Niagara Airport on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, after Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed into a home in Clarence Center, N.Y.
Family members leave the Buffalo Niagara Airport on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, after Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed into a home in Clarence Center, N.Y.
A Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 similar to the one shown crashed into a home and exploded in Clarence Center, N.Y., Thursday night Feb. 12, 2009.
Graphic shows the specifications of the Bombardier Q400 passenger plane.