A plane with 48 people on board crashed into a house near Buffalo, New York and burst into flames late on Thursday. The Federal Aviation Administration said there were no survivors on the plane.

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.

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