| Tuesday, November 13, 2001, updated at 10:30(GMT+8) |
American Airlines Passenger Jet Crashes After Takeoff |
 An American Airline flight 587 that had just taken off from JFK for the Dominican Republic crashed Monday, and buildings reportedly were on fire in the Queens borough of New York City.
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An American Airline flight 587 that had just taken off from JFK for the Dominican Republic crashed Monday, and buildings reportedly were on fire in the Queens borough of New York City.
Flight 587, an Airbus A300 that can carry 275 passengers, crashed shortly after 9 a.m. (1400 GMT) and thick, black smoke could be seen kilometers away.
Black smoke could be seen from the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan.
There was no report of the number of casualties, either on the plane or on the ground.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police said all three New York Area airports, JFK, Newark International Airport and La Guardia, were shut down after the crash.
The city of New York was put on the high state of alert, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said. Fighter jets were seen flying over the area.
Bill Schumann of the Federal Aviation Administration said there was no immediate indication of what caused the crash.
A New York Fire Department spokesman said that 44 units and some 200 firefighters have been dispatched to the crash site.
The crash came two months after the attack on the World Trade Center, which was destroyed by two Boeing 767s hijacked out of Boston's Logan Airport.
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