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One person was killed when a small plane crashed Friday evening near Teterboro Airport shortly after the pilot radioed that he was running low on fuel, authorities said. Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which operates the airport, said a small Cessna struck the South Hackensack Post Office building on Huyler Street.

A small plane crashed Tuesday morning at Teterboro Airport. It was not immediately clear how many people were aboard or whether anyone was injured. The plane, a Swearingen aircraft, was on final approach to the airport when the pilot reported engine problems, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Developing story.

NEWARK, N.J. A Parsippany man pleads innocent to federal charges that he pointed a hand-held laser device at an aircraft and lied to investigators about it. David W. Banach was arraigned yesterday on an indictment handed up March 23rd by a federal grand jury. Banach is accused of pointing a hand-held laser toward a charter aircraft en route to Teterboro Airport on December 29th. The laser beam allegedly lit up the cockpit, causing both pilots a temporary loss of night vision that briefly prevented them from seeing flight instruments and other aircraft in the vicinity. Banach's lawyer said he was...

The corporate jet that crashed into a warehouse in Teterboro, N.J., last month with 11 people on board was carrying too much of its weight in front, federal investigators said in a preliminary report released yesterday. The National Transportation Safety Board, which is still investigating the crash, said that the plane's center of gravity was "well forward of the allowable limit." Tests on a flight simulator showed that the plane would not have been able to lift off at its normal takeoff speed with the balance of fuel, passengers and baggage it was carrying, according to the report.

Man who admitted shining laser at aircraft indicted on Patriot Act charge By JEFFREY GOLD Associated Press Writer March 23, 2005, 4:51 PM EST NEWARK, N.J. -- A man accused of pointing a laser at an airplane, temporarily blinding the pilot and co-pilot, was indicted Wednesday under an anti-terror law. David W. Banach also was accused of lying to the FBI about the Dec. 29 incident, in which a small passenger jet's windshield and cabin were hit three times by a green laser as the plane readied to land at Teterboro Airport. The charges in the three-count federal indictment were...

NEWARK, N.J. -- The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded the company that hired the flight crew for the corporate jet that crashed last month while attempting to take off from Teterboro Airport, and claims it may be unqualified to fly passengers. The company, Platinum Jet Management, has also refused to fully comply with an FAA subpoena for documents, withholding training records, duty time records and pay records for pilots and mechanics, according to court papers the agency filed late Wednesday. The court documents were disclosed Thursday after a federal judge in Newark ordered Platinum Jet to attend a hearing Monday...

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PLANE CRASH IN NYC BURBS:  "BREAKING NEWS" This just being reported. A private plane has crashed at Teterboro airport 5 miles west of Manhattan. Teteroboro primarily services private aircraft. The plane tried to land...overshot the runway crossed Route 46 and slammed into a building. Several cars were on Route 46 in the midst of rush hour, and have been impacted by both the jet and the aftermath of running into each other. The plane has been confirmed to be a Challenger C-360, the owners are from the Dallas Texas area. The studios of New York based WMCA 570/970 directly overlook the...