‘Went in nose first’: Amazon cargo plane crashes in Texas
- Witnesses said they heard the plane’s engines surging and that the craft turned sharply before falling into a nosedive
A Boeing 767 cargo jetliner heading to Houston with three people aboard disintegrated after crashing into a bay east of the city, according to a Texas sheriff.
Witnesses told emergency personnel that the twin-engined plane “went in nose first”, leaving a debris field three-quarters of a mile long in Trinity Bay, Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said.
“It’s probably a crash that nobody would survive,” he said, referring to the scene as “total devastation”.
The cargo plane made a steep descent shortly before 12:45pm Saturday from 6,525 feet to 3,025 feet in 30 seconds, according to tracking data from FlightAware.com.
The flight was being operated for Amazon Prime by Atlas Air, according to a statement from the airline.
Witnesses said they heard the plane’s engines surging and that the craft turned sharply before falling into a nosedive, Hawthorne said.