Plane Flying Cargo for Amazon Crashes in Texas -- 2nd Update
2019年2月24日 - 11:12AM
Dow Jones News
By Andrew Tangel, Doug Cameron and Alison Sider
A plane flying cargo for Amazon.com Inc. crashed in Texas on
Saturday with three people on board, leaving a large debris field
in a bay near Houston, authorities said.
The aircraft, a Boeing Co. 767-300 freighter jet operated by
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc., was flying from Miami to Houston
when it crashed into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, around 12:45
p.m. Central time, according to the Federal Aviation
Administration.
The FAA said it lost radar and radio contact with Atlas Air
Flight 3591 about 30 miles southeast of Houston's George Bush
Intercontinental Airport.
The crash left a large field of items including women's
clothing, bed sheets, cardboard boxes and fiberglass, said Brian
Hawthorne, sheriff of Chambers County, Texas.
The largest intact section of the aircraft was about 50 feet
long, Mr. Hawthorne said at a news conference. "It looks like total
devastation," the sheriff said. "Knowing what I saw I don't believe
anybody could survive it."
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Houston office, which is
assisting with the probe, said human remains had been recovered and
there were no signs of survivors.
Witnesses reported the plane crashed nose first into a marshy
area of the bay, Sheriff Hawthorne said. He said recent fog in the
area had lifted, but conditions at the crash site were tough as the
water depth varied from 5 feet to zero, with deep mud.
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt
told reporters the plane was in a normal descent until around 6,300
feet. It then took what he described as a "very, very rapid" dive.
The NTSB was sending a team of investigators to the crash site late
Saturday.
Atlas Air said in a statement the three people on the plane and
their families "are our top priority at this time," adding that it
is fully cooperating with the FAA and NTSB.
Purchase, N.Y.-based Atlas Air operates a fleet of 112 jets,
including 20 Boeing 767 freighters flying on behalf of Amazon Air,
formerly known as Prime Air. It also flies aircraft for other
customers, including DHL Express, China's SF Express and the U.S.
military.
Air Transport Services Group Inc., another cargo operator, flies
another 20 of the Boeing jets for Amazon, with more due to join
later this year.
Amazon subcontracts flying between its U.S. fulfillment centers,
as well as ground handling and maintenance services.
Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president of worldwide
operations, offered the company's thoughts and prayers to the
crew's friends and families. "We appreciate the first responders
who worked urgently to provide support," he added.
The e-commerce giant launched its air operation in 2015,
building on the rapid growth of online purchases of goods that
previously shipped by road or rail.
The last major crash of a cargo jet in the U.S. occurred in
August 2013, when an Airbus A300 jet operated by United Parcel
Service Inc. crashed short of the runway as it approached the
Birmingham, Ala., airport, killing the pilot and co-pilot.
--Laura Stevens contributed to this article.
Write to Andrew Tangel at Andrew.Tangel@wsj.com, Doug Cameron at
doug.cameron@wsj.com and Alison Sider at alison.sider@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 23, 2019 20:57 ET (01:57 GMT)
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