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Amazon Cargo Jet Dove Steeply Into Bay Near Houston, Video Shows

Amazonが契約しているCargo Jetが数日前Houston, TXの空港に着陸進入中に墜落すると言うニュースがありました。Bloomberge誌からの記事で、サイトの左手の矢印ボタンを押すと、管制塔との更新記録が聴けます。

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A widebody cargo plane hauling packages for Amazon abruptly dove and slammed into a bay at high speed on Saturday as it was preparing to land in Houston. All three people on board were killed.

The Boeing Co. 767-300, operated by Atlas Air on a flight that had departed from Miami, disappeared from radar and lost radio contact, landing about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, said Robert Sumwalt, the National Transportation Safety Board chairman who’s leading the investigation.

Video recorded from a nearby jail captured the plane’s final five seconds before it smashed into the water, Sumwalt said in a briefing Sunday afternoon. “It’s descending in a steep descent, steep nose-down attitude,” Sumwalt said. “By looking at the video, I saw no evidence of the aircraft trying to turn or pull up at the last moments.”

The plane fell thousands of feet in just seconds after what had been a routine descent, according to Sumwalt and the flight-tracking website FlightRadar24. Two bodies have been recovered, Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said.