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[iShouldGoPro]

A small plane crashed this afternoon in an industrial area in the northern New Jersey town of Carlstadt, police say.

The Federal Aviation Administration said a Learjet 35 that was en route from Philadelphia International Airport to New Jersey's Teterboro Airport crashed at 3:30 p.m. while on approach to Runway 1 at Teterboro.

The plane went down in a residential area about a quarter of a mile from the airport, the FAA said

A Learjet 35 can hold up to eight passengers but it is unclear how many people were on board.

The FAA is heading to the scene.

Video on Twitter showed smoke billowing across the sky.

Teterboro Airport has been closed.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/learjet-crashes-industrial-area-northern-jersey-police/story?id=47423304


More information is rolling out as we speak.

UPDATE: looks like 2 crew members have been confirmed dead in the crash
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/864218649862787073?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

 

[CREMSteve]

Shouldn't have read this as I'm about to board a flight. :/

Hopefully there are survivors.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

Shouldn't have read this as I'm about to board a flight. :/

Hopefully there are survivors.

I already feel afraid for my next plane in the near future.

 

[Media]

That looks really bad, I doubt anyone survived that. RIP

 

[zeemumu]

Shouldn't have read this as I'm about to board a flight. :/

Hopefully there are survivors.

I don't know. That doesn't look like the type of crash to have survivors

 

[Kurtofan]

RIP to the victims, though I have to say I'm relieved it wasn't a large plane, the thread title should perhaps reflect this? Just a thought.

 

[Stinkles]

Shouldn't have read this as I'm about to board a flight. :/

Hopefully there are survivors.

Literally dozens of people will be killed in car wrecks today. Ask yourself how safe it was going to the airport, statistically. You'll be fine.


And small planes crash a lot more than airliners.

 

[STG!]

This happened minutes away from my office. Was in a meeting wondering why I was hearing non-stop sirens for an hour... Yikes, looked bad from the photo's.

 

[Pestilence11]

Shouldn't have read this as I'm about to board a flight. :/

Hopefully there are survivors.

When I went to Cuba for a week I watched a bunch of documentaries on airline disasters, because that was the only thing on. What's going to happen will happen regardless.

 

[FrankCanada97]

RIP to the victims, though I have to say I'm relieved it wasn't a large plane, the thread title should perhaps reflect this? Just a thought.

What should it say? "Learjet"? I doubt enough people around here can identify what that is.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Dammit. I hope at least some people made it out ok. Plane crashes are one of my greatest fears.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

Literally dozens of people will be killed in car wrecks today. Ask yourself how safe it was going to the airport, statistically. You'll be fine.


And small planes crash a lot more than airliners.

It doesn't work out that easily mentally

 

[perfectchaos007]

Literally dozens of people will be killed in car wrecks today. Ask yourself how safe it was going to the airport, statistically. You'll be fine.


And small planes crash a lot more than airliners.

Yeah I have little fear going on commercial airlines, but those little puddle jumpers that hold less than 10 people scare me

 

[littleworm]

Ugh, I know the odds are so minuscule, but I always get a little nervous thinking this is gonna be my dads plane when I see threads like this. Here is hoping there are survivors but that picture doesn't look promising.

 

[iShouldGoPro]

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/86421...7Ctwgr^tweet

confirmed by police.

 

[Kurtofan]

What should it say? "Learjet"? I doubt enough people around here can identify what that is.

"small plane crashes near New Jersey airport"

 

[Tom Nook]

So sad

 

[Damaniel]

It doesn't work out that easily mentally

For a lot of people, it's about loss of control. In a car, the driver at least feels in control (even though they're really at the mercy of literally every other person on the road), but in a plane, the pilot is the pilot, and no amount of turbulence, whining babies or other discomforts are going to give you any control over the situation whatsoever. Getting people - who are reluctant to give up at least the appearance of control - over a fear of flying is a very difficult task.

RIP to the pilots and other crew. Are there any confirmations of other passengers?

 

[One Eyed Willy]

Just flew to New Orleans today, holy shit I didn't need to read this. Flying to Orlando on Sunday too.. :/

RIP

 

[HStallion]

This was just on the news. There is a pretty large fire that has consumed several cars, melting some of them its so hot as well as blowing out windows and such in surrounding buildings.

 

[backflip10019]

Shouldn't have read this as I'm about to board a flight. :/

Hopefully there are survivors.

You'll be fine. I just flew to LA today. Thousands and thousands of flights every day.