the plane involvement in the shooting was a bombardier douglas 8 , originally crashed into a home located at 6038 long highway in hobart plaza , a suburb of buffalo . it went down at exactly 10 : 17 o . m . est ( 03 : 20 noon ) , february 12 . 44 passengers , an off - duty pilot , and fourteen team members dead in the accident , as also as one man on the board .
A plane crashed while flying on autopilot.