A Continental flight from Newark to Buffalo crashed Thursday night, killing forty-nine people. The dead included forty-four passengers, four crew members and a person on the ground. The crash occurred about five miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport. It was the nation’s deadliest air crash in more than two years. One of the passengers killed was the widow of a businessman who died in the September 11 attacks. Beverly Eckert had been traveling to Buffalo to mark what would have been her late husband’s fifty-eighth birthday.