the plane involving in the incident was a cessna dash 8 , which crashed into a cottage located at 6038 long street in clarence center , a section of buffalo . it went down at approximately 10 : 17 d . m . est ( 03 : 20 utc ) , around 12 . 44 pilots , an off - duty officer , and four crews members died in the incidents , as many as one guy on the grounds .
A plane crashed while flying on autopilot.