“I knew it would never make it to the airport,” One eyewitness said. Friday afternoon, a United Airlines Jet with 61 people crashed in the residential district south of Townsville. Many died as the plane plowed through homes. The cook County reported 42 bodies have found, and 16 including the flight attendants have been admitted to Holy Cross Hospital.
“The last words the pilot said to us were, ‘We are at 4,000 feet and everything is going well.’ I knew something was wrong a few seconds later because he began to rev the engines”, one of the survivors, Marvin Anderson, 43 of Omaha said.
“We will look into this thoroughly” an official said. The National Transportation Safety Board in Washington immediately dispatched an investigative team to Townsville. Several board members were already in Townsville conducting hearings for the Oct. 20 commuter train crash that claimed 45 lives last month.