Vigil On Anniversary Of Buffalo-Area Plane Crash

A candlelight vigil is planned to mark the third anniversary of the deadly crash of Continental Flight 3407 near Buffalo.

The Sunday evening ceremony will start with a candlelight procession from a church to the site of the crash in the town of Clarence. At the site, a brief remembrance ceremony is planned.

All 49 people on board the Newark, N.J.-to-Buffalo flight were killed when the plane experienced an aerodynamic stall and crashed into a home a little after 10 p.m. on Feb. 12, 2009. A man inside the house also died.

The crash is blamed on pilot error.

A memorial currently under construction at the crash site will be dedicated in June.

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