Denver plane "crash" background

About 24 hours ago, word emerged from a local TV station in Denver that a Boeing 737 passenger plane crashed at Denver International Airport.

As the report reached our overnight team in America, the reporter in charge (@RodrigoMx) issued the first bulletin, alerting our members that a 737 crashed in Denver, while quoting local television. Further information was not available at that point but the initial report was processed and reported as a bulletin on BreakingNewsOn in about one minute, proving once again that our team is able to gather, process and report breaking news from official, unofficial and media reports in record time. National media followed about 20 minutes later, with the Associated Press issuing a tiny story saying there had been an accident at the airport.

As the news spread on Twitter, with dozens of people re-posting our bulletins, it became clear the incident was not as big as initially thought. The plane veered of the runway as it tried to take off.

As of this posting, no fatalities have been reported but more than 50 people are injured as a result of the accident. Two women remain in critical condition.

The accident also resulted in the second best day on record for BNO’s BreakingNewsOn Twitter-service with just under 300 new members. The second day of our continuing breaking news coverage during the Mumbai terrorist attacks remains the “best” day when we look at the numbers.

A graphic of these numbers can be found below.

Articles about BreakingNewsOn’s breaking news coverage of the Denver plane crash:
Twitter’s Place in Breaking News
The reporter is dead! Long live the reporter!
Tweetip: Denver plane crash Twitter timeline
PR In A Jar: The power of Twitter

- Michael van Poppel (@mpoppel)