Live Blogging: Continental Plane Crash…

12:25 am – A Continental affilliate airliner has crashed in Buffalo, NY. MSNBC is covering it live with Dan Kloeffler and CNN is feeding off of CNN International. FNC is running tape (Hannity) at the moment. I don’t know when the crash happened so I don’t know if FNC was already covering it and went back to tape or not. Someone want to fill in the details?

Update: 12:27 – FNC is live covering it but then went to commercial and then back to Hannity. What gives?

Update: 12:32 – CNNI is scooping MSNBC. CNNI has a live feed of a presser on the accident and MSNBC doesn’t. FNC is back to covering it again.

Update: 12:34 – Now FNC has the presser too. MSNBC is still being skunked. I’ll bet affilliate relations is going to ream the NBC Buffalo affilliate in the morning…

Update: 12:37 – Here’s the flight track…

Update: 12:39 – FNC in commercials again. Sheesh…

Update: 12:45 –

CNN was simulcasting the NBC affilliate at one point according to an emailer. The NBC affilliate has exclusive video of the scene. Why can CNN get this footage but MSNBC can’t? I don’t like bagging on anchors in breaking news situations but MSNBC’s Kloeffler is sinking like a rock with his coverage. I’m not surprised considering all the cuts to NBC News. MSNBC must be on the most skeleton of skeleton crews. This is what happens when you gut your newsroom to cut costs. Are you paying attention Capus and Griffin? Then again FNC isn’t fairing much better though they did have the presser MSNBC couldn’t get. CNNI is kicking everyone’s butt right now with its rotating affilliate coverage…

Update: 12:48: – Air Traffic Control audio. It starts around 15 minutes in (about 2/3-3/4 in the timeline bar). You’re listening for Colgan 3407. The ATC remark is “aircraft over the marker”. Emergency services are dispatched a couple of minutes later…

Update: 12:52 – Someone woke up Robert Hager who is now on the phone on MSNBC. This is an improvement as Hagar is a pro and has been missed on NBC. A few minutes earlier MSNBC had YouTube video of the scene. Here it is…

Update: 12:58 – Another presser. CNNI has it. MSNBC and FNC don’t.

Update: 1:05 – FNC anchor just said they’re waiting for the next press conference in three hours. Meanwhile CNNI is showing the next press conference. MSNBC is still lost in the weeds and doesn’t have the presser or its NBC affilliate. An emailer notes, “this is so ironic coming from the network who’s launch event was upstaging CNN’s coverage of TWA800 they are getting their pants spanked by their own affiliate which is being simulcast on CNNi.”

Update: 1:13 – FNC back in tape (On The Record)

Update: 1:16 – FNC comes out of tape again. Make up your minds please. FNC has new video of emergency vehicles running around.

Update: 1:23 – Anderson Cooper is now on CNN. I’m surprised that CNN would make an effort with its own coverage by bringing in an A talent. Another example of how CNN has just owned this story tonight. Meanwhile FNC is airing the presser CNN already aired.

Update: 1:29 – FNC is running commercials again. Guess they need to make up News Corp.’s revenue shortfall…

Update: 1:32 – It’s been over an hour since I started liveblogging this and all that MSNBC has managed to show is some still pictures and that YouTube video. No affilliates. No pressers. Just lots of phone interviews. They are in communication with their affilliate because they’re interviewing a reporter with the affilliate but it’s by phone. I’m starting to think CNN has some sort of exclusivity deal that’s frozen MSNBC out of its affilliate’s footage. If that’s true, whoever let this happen…bad call.

Update: 1:40 – Another reason CNN should have never let Miles O’Brien go. Cooper’s doing well but O’Brien is sorely missed.

Update: 1:41 – Eureka! MSNBC has video! Finally.

Update: 3:00 – Cooper is still on CNN. Kloeffler is still on MSNBC. On FNC, Julie Banderas, via phone, was doing interviews via the phone. I haven’t seen anything like this since Brian Williams, via phone, interviewed Pete Williams via phone when Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist died. FNC has Rick Leventhal driving up to Buffalo to do streaming coverage.