the craft involved in the incident was a bombardier dash 8 , which flipped into a home located at 6038 long creek in scarborough middle , a suburb of rochester . it went down at at 10 : 17 a . m . est ( 03 : 20 utc ) , february 12 . 44 passengers , an off - service pilot , and several team members died in the accident , as whole as one person on the ground .
A plane crashed while flying on autopilot.