From The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...592236,00.html
Passenger jet crashes in New York
Staff and agencies
Monday November 12, 2001
An American Airlines flight carrying 246 passengers crashed in a residential neighbourhood of New York today at 9.15am local time (14.15 GMT).
The Airbus A300 crashed near Rockaway beach, Queens, one of New York's five boroughs. The plane - American Airlines flight 587 - had taken off from JFK airport en route to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
New York's three major airports - Newark, JFK and LaGuardia - were all closed down and their approaching flights were diverted to other airports.
The US federal aviation administration (FAA) said it had no information on the cause of the crash.
The mayor of New York, Rudolf Giuliani, broke off from a meeting and headed to the crash site.