The Buffalo airliner crash that killed 50 people may have been the pilot’s fault, investigators said today.

US investigators have located key parts that might help reveal the pilot’s efforts to save a plane that crashed into a house, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.

A commuter plane that smashed into a house apparently plunged flat to the ground rather than nose-diving, ending up pointed away from the airport it was trying to reach, US investigators said.

US authorities said 49 people are dead after a commuter plane crashed into a home in suburban Buffalo and erupted in flames.