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Back Stories: Teterboro Airport Crash

/ CBS New York

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- Today's Back Story takes us to the morning rush on February 2, 2005.

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A plane taking off at Teterboro Airport crashed through a fence surrounding the runway, traveled across Route 46 and into a warehouse across from the airport. A red light on Route 46 may have diverted a full-scale disaster.

WCBS reporter Peter Haskell remembers what he saw on the scene.

First published on February 14, 2017 / 12:01 AM EST

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