Five people were killed in a plane crash Thursday night during take-off at Kennedy International Airport. The plane contained two professors from Backwater State University.

Professor John Dumont and professor George Johnson were on their way back from two different conferences in New York ready to fly home when the unexpected happened. The two professors along with forty-three others were witnesses to their plane crashing at take-off. The professors from The Backwater State University escaped injury, whilst five others were killed.