Local emergency officials said earlier there were multiple fatalities. CNN said one person was killed on the ground. The 74-seat Bombardier Q400, a turboprop plane, was a Continental Express flight operated by Colgan Air, flying from Newark to Buffalo. It crashed in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence Centre amid rain and sleet, local officials said.

The Federal Aviation Administration said there were 44 passengers and four crew on the plane and it crashed 6 miles (10 km) short of the airport. The exact cause of the crash is now under investigation. Yahoo News reports that Beverly Eckert, a Sept. 11 widow who, “put her never-ending grief to good use to make the country safer” died on the crash. Eckert was flying to Buffalo Thursday night to celebrate what would have been her husband, Sean Rooney’s, 58th birthday. This is the nation’s first deadly crash of a commercial airliner in two and a-half years.

US Airways Flight 1549 had 146 passengers on board and 5 crew members. Amazingly, no deaths or serious injuries were reported. The most serious injury appears to be broken legs on one passenger.

The plane took off from LaGuardia at 3:11 p.m. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said the flight had just taken off when the crash occurred in the river near 48th Street in Midtown.

The city’s police and fire departments along with the Coast Guard responded to pull scared passengers from the wreck, some of whom were standing on the wings of the plane. Ferries around the plane were also dropping life jackets for people in the water.

Goldstein, 35, was sent to Joseph Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga. after the plane he, former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker were flying in crashed during take-off at the airport in Columbia, S.C.

Four people were killed in the crash including the crew.

Last night, Barker’s business partner and hip-hop producer Jermaine Dupri told reporters that it is likely that Barker will be released from the hospital as well within the next two weeks.

Goldstein was said to have suffered second and third-degree burns to his upper body and head from the fire that occurred after the plane crashed.

A South Carolina Leerjet crash has killed four and left former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Adam Michael Goldstein (DJ AM) in critical condition at an area hospital burn unit.

The plane never made it off the ground for takeoff. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen told reporters that the plane carrying was departing before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reported seeing sparks. The plane careened off the runway and crashed on a roadway.

The pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, CA co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, CA, Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, CA, and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles, CA died in the crash.

Barker and Goldstein were in South Carolina for a concert. Officials said that Gavin DeGraw and Parrey Farrell, who preformed at the same concert, were not on the plane.

An eyewitness told local NBC affiliate WIS-10 that the two survivors could be seen running around, on fire, trying to extinguish themselves.

DJ AM is from Los Angeles and is best known for his engagement to Nicole Ritchie. He performed with Barker recently at the MTV Video Music Awards.