News / All three crew killed as Atlas Air 767 freighter crashes near Houston 

Nathan Coats

Federal investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board started combing through debris on Sunday, looking for clues about the final seconds of Atlas Air flight 3591.

The Boeing 767-300 freighter crashed into Trinity Bay near the town of Anahuac, Texas on Saturday afternoon, about 40 miles from its destination, Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport. 

The freighter was on its approach to Houston when it suddenly made a sharp descent from an altitude of 5,800 feet and crashed into the marshy bay. According to video footage from about one-and-a-half miles away that captured ...