CLARENCE, N.Y. - An investigator says the Canadian-built plane that crashed on a house in a Buffalo suburb landed flat on it and was pointed away from the airport where it was supposed to land.
Steve Chealander said today that Continental Connection Flight 3407 did not dive into the house, as initially thought.
Chealander says the New Jersey-to-Buffalo flight was cleared to land on a runway pointing to the southwest. But the plane crashed with its nose pointed to the northeast.
He also says the catastrophic nature of the crash means it could take three or four days to remove human remains.
Forty-nine people on the plane and one person in the house died in the fiery crash late Thursday. The victims included one Canadian.
