Breaking News: Boeing 767 operated by veteran cargo outfit Atlas Air (for Amazon Air) crashes near Houston

[Carnos Jax]

All three aboard dead.

[space-time]

Sad. It appeared it went nose down in the bay?

[Carnos Jax]

Yes, that's what I"m hearing. All of sudden like too. It was on approach to landing.

[Thrift Store Scott]

The incident is being discussed at some length here- http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1416323

If you can ignore the ever-present static of people who ask questions that have already been answered multiple times, it's worth a read.

[space-time]

I am surprised Amazon does not have any notice about the incident on their home page. They were probably not Amazon employees, but they were carrying Amazon cargo, so I would expect a notice about thoughts and prayers for their families. Nothing... unless I missed it.

[Rolando]

One of the posts on the forum asked it they flew into this storm cell..
Weather at 12:20pm

Flight info at 12:39

[C(-)ris]

Thrift Store Scott wrote:
The incident is being discussed at some length here- http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1416323

If you can ignore the ever-present static of people who ask questions that have already been answered multiple times, it's worth a read.

That is a long thread, but I’m not sure I actually learned anything reading it. A lot of uninformed conjecture.

[Thrift Store Scott]

C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=Thrift Store Scott]
The incident is being discussed at some length here- http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1416323

If you can ignore the ever-present static of people who ask questions that have already been answered multiple times, it's worth a read.

That is a long thread, but I’m not sure I actually learned anything reading it. A lot of uninformed conjecture.
Oh absolutely, such is the way of Airliners.net, particularly since it stopped being a paid site. However, there are still posters there who do know what they're talking about to counteract and/or disprove the worst of the uninformed conjecture. The main things I've taken away from the thread so far is that the 767 is a very stable, forgiving aircraft to fly and that anything which would have taken out both engines at once (birds, hail, etc.) would not have brought down the aircraft in such a sudden manner on it's own because 767s glide very well with no power as evidenced by the "Gimli Glider" incident and from the altitude they were at they could have glided for up to 20 miles.