Another person has been taken to the hospital. I want to get right to it and show you the incredible video. You can see here this small plane still on the rr tracks. A lot of Emergency Response here right now. It appears that this small plane went down maybe around 7 30, 8 00 this morning. Again were here in beth page it does appear it took out some of the Railroad Crossing signals as it came down. Whoever was flying this plane maybe tried to aim it here. Obviously there are houses all just right next to where the plane went down. Im hearing from my sources at least one person is dead. Another has been taken to the hospital. Nassau county executive is here on the scene. We spoke with him just a short time ago. Heres what he had to safety. Looks like a small plane tried to land here and clipped some of the Railroad Infrastructure and broke up. Reporter i want to show you the wreckage of the Small Plane Crash. A lot of Emergency Responders here right now trying to deal with cleaning this
A public airport in farmingdale. Eyewitness News Reporter n. J. Burkett is live in bethpage n. J. Reporter outside the crash scene you can see they are working to repair damaged crossing gates and damaged track. The goal tonight is to have a morning. But this crash was devastating. Service has been suspended all tonight. The pilot was killed in the flaming wreckage of his single engine plane moments after investigators say he tried to make an Emergency Landing on South Oyster Bay road. Instead, the plane missed the street and crashed in the middle of the main line of the long island railroad. But the desperate maneuver saved his passenger pulled to safety by an eyewitness to the crash. My coworker saw a plane the plane upside down. He said that plane is going down. At that point he ran out. He said call 911. By the time i got out here, i saw him pulling out the passenger. According to the faa, the plane was a four seater beach craft be 35. According to flight aware, registered to a cha
Monroe 64 is where you are starting off your day at 8 01 in one second. There we go. 8 01 exactly. Vortex satellite and radar, skies have cleared out after Early Morning showers. We are sitting pretty. A mostly sunny day with a slime chance of showers well north of the city. An air quality alert goes into effect at 11 00 a. M. Today. This is especially important for those of you who suffer from allergies for young kids and the elderly as well. Difficult to breath with the high heat and high levels of o soap. Here we go, to break down the day, 9 00 a. M. , 82. Thats what it feels like. By noon 86 feels like 88. Mostly sunny. Three this afternoon, 92 the high this afternoon. It will feel like 94. Skies are mostly sunny. This evening, it will start getting more humid. We will talk about what you can expect as we make our way into the workweek coming up in the full forecast. Vanessa, thank you. Breaking news this morning, indonesian airliner flying through bad weather is now missing. Trans
Temperatures in Southern California pose another challenge for firefighters. With the heat around you, depending on the flame length and whats burning, maybe 130plus. Reporter the situation all too familiar for some trying to protect thefl selves from fire dang remember for the last several years. This is a third time that we got threatened by a fire. Reporter many back in washington have seen the fears realized. The question now is, how much worse will it get. Reporter later today, more help is on the way. Were expecting an additional 250 firefighters to arrive. Were told this area is so squares with resource that is help has been requested from as far away as australia. Erica. My goodness. Gadi schwartz, thanks. Dylan is here with a look at the sheer number of fires and what the firefighters are up against today. Were at the peak of fire season right now. It lasts through basically the middle to end of october. We have 85 uncontained large fires right now, including parts of montana,
Second person, but the smoke and fire was too much. Reporter one person died. The survive a 55yearold man awake and rushed to the hospital. The person was pretty banged up. However, the person was still conscious but was in and out. Reporter investigators say the singleengine plane was headed from west hampton to morristown, new jersey, when the pilot reported trouble. Reported to farmingdale that they were experiencing difficulty maintaining altitude. Reporter today investigators surveyed the damage. Pieces of the plane scattered across the tracks near South Oyster Bay road, suspending service between hicksville and farmingdale. But an mta spokesperson says the crash could have been catastrophic. There was no train going through at that point, but the crossing was open. So, you know, there was a possibility there could have been cars going through. Reporter and because the crash happened on the liir tracks, the mta is investigating along with the faa. Lori bordonaro, news 4. And this