Continental Flight 3407 crashes into a house in suburban Buffalo


	Continental Flight 3407 crashes into a house in suburban Buffalo

infidel70

2-13-2009 1:22 AM

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infidel70 says:

First Tweet of Buffalo Plane Crash:
"Holy S__t! A small plane crashed into homes a couple miles from my house! Jet fuel is spilling into the streets!!!!" - KeithBurtis
http://twitter.com/KeithBurtis/status/1205256171

48 are presumed dead

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2-13-2009 5:49 AM

merrie

Keith Burtis was interviewed by Fox News at the scene.
He runs an internet marketing business and said Twitter
has been flooded with hundreds of thousands of Tweets.

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