Flight 3407 did not crash nose-down, federal investigators say

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Source: Buffalo News

Contrary to eyewitness reports that Continental Flight 3407 crashed nose-down into a Clarence home Thursday, federal investigators said today there's evidence that the airplane landed flat.

"We found the cockpit, tail section, both wings and the engine. And they're where they should be if an airplane was laying flat," National Transportation Safety Board Member Steven Chealander told reporters at a news conference late this afternoon in Amherst.

The plane also was pointed away from the airport runway where it was supposed to land, Chealander said.

The aircraft's stall-protection mechanisms had been activated … devices that warn the pilot of possible in-flight stalls.



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