Some small aircraft smashed into a building in NYC!

[Closet Funk]

I was just walking by the tv and saw some breaking new on this. It seems a small aircraft crashed into a New York City building. I don't know what excatly happend but it may have been some stupid fuck no knowing how to fly or just some accident. Let's hope it's not another attempt from Bin Ladens ass. It doesnt' seem he would waste his time with a small aircraft though. Who knows.

 

[Ohh.Word]

thanks 4 the news, Chicken Little

 

[Closet Funk]

thanks 4 the news, Chicken Little

Thanks for the smart ass comment.

 

[Guest]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6042306.stm

It seems even the BBC are asking for more info.

 

[Closet Funk]

Of course they are going to look into as terrorist. I doubt it is.

 

[Guest]

Hi folks...
Seems it is a small multi-engined plane that hit a residential high rise building. Being a small plane hitting a non stratigic target I gotta think its only an accident. My prayers go out to the folks on the plane and the folks that are in that building.

Seed

 

[Closet Funk]

Hi folks...
Seems it is a small multi-engined plane that hit a residential high rise building. Being a small plane hitting a non stratigic target I gotta think its only an accident. My prayers go out to the folks on the plane and the folks that are in that building.

Seed

See that's what I'm thinking too.

 

[rusto]

if not its just republicans trying to win another election

 

[Nikijad4210]

Probably just a simple accident.


Anyone in FL remember way back when in early '02, when a teenage pilot in Tampa decided to commit suicide by flying his plane into the BOA building in downtown Tampa? Scared the fuck out of a lot of people down here til the mass hysteria died down.

 

[NiteTiger]

From CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A small airplane crashed into a 50-story residential building on Manhattan's East Side on Wednesday, killing at least two people, the New York City Fire Department and New York City Police Department said.

Flames were shooting out from several windows midway up the luxury high-rise in a residential neighborhood. Paramedics and rescue workers are treating people on the ground.

The Federal Aviation Administration described the plane as a "general aviation" fixed-wing aircraft flying under visual flight rules, meaning a pilot was flying by visual landmarks. (Watch the orange flames ravage the apartment -- 1:50)

The plane hit the Belaire Condominiums at 524 E. 72nd Street near the East River. More than 150 firefighters are on scene of a four-alarm fire in the building.

NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) said it had put fighter aircraft into the air over numerous U.S. cities, though they said they had no reason to believe the event in New York was anything more than an accident, sources told CNN's Barbara Starr. NORAD did the same thing after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

NORAD fighters scrambled in response, according to NORAD Admiral Timothy Keating, though the White House has told CNN that they have no indication that the crash is related to terrorism. Keating would not say how many NORAD jets are up but that they are airborne as a precaution. If the crash was indeed terrorism and there was a continuing threat then NORAD is charged with shooting down any aircrafts.

"We've been in contact with our intelligence partners, coalition partners around the world," Keating told CNN. "And there are no, repeat, no indication that there is anything underfoot beyond this one airplane or helicopter."

Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs New York area airports said he had "no idea where [the plane] came from."

"We haven't heard from any of our facilities that anything's missing," said Coleman.

New York City government source told CNN there are "no indications of terrorism."

The FAA placed a one-mile flight restriction around the site of the crash, but New York area airports were not affected.

A senior U.S. official in Washington said the administration was waiting for more information.

Witness Henry Neimark, who is also a pilot, said he saw a plane flying at relatively low altitude which seemed to come from LaGuardia International Airport.

"It looked to me in retrospect that this was a pilot desperately trying to get back to the airport and land safely on a runway," he said.

"The fire was raging out of two windows," witness Sarah Steiner told CNN. "It looks like the plane just flew into someone's living room."

Steiner said fires were burning on the ground. "It looks like the plane just flew into someone's living room there."

"It looks as if the aircraft didn't go into the building but fell down," she said. "It may be part of the debris burning on the ground."

Video from the scene shows at least three apartments in the high-rise engulfed in flames.

 

[canaboid]

It was an accident and it seems the plane was ownded by NY Yankees Cory Lidle

 

[Closet Funk]

Yea it ended up being a Yankee dying in the crash along with 3 other people. At least it wasnt' more terrorist shit. God bless the family of the dying people though.

 

[Fat Albert]

if not its just republicans trying to win another election

Wow....it took even fewer posts to gratuitously attack the Repubs than I thought....

Cheers!
Fat A

P.S. My heart goes out to the Lidle family and the families of all the others struck by this tragedy....

 

[Amy]

hmmm, you cant take hair gell on a plane but you can fly a small plane over nyc?

 

[Ohh.Word]

hmmm, you cant take hair gell on a plane but you can fly a small plane over nyc?

 

[buckeye-leaf]

Just seen on Sportscenter that indeed it was Cory Lidle pitcher for the Yankees who lost his life along with another person, my heart goes out to his family especially his wife and his 6 year old son. What an awful tragedy, 2nd NY Yankee player to die who was piloting his own aircraft in '79 catcher Thurman Munson was also killed in an airplane crash.

 

[Guest]

It was a pitcher from NY Yankees!
MOD

 

[Guest]

Hey guys, was it a pitcher from the Yankees?

 

[Mr. Nevermind]

OK, lets cut the bullshit. How in the fuck did another plane hit a high rise in NYC 5 years after 9-11? Billions of dollars for homeland security, 9-11 commisions and all this talk of us being safe. Yet a plane can fly right into NYC and slam a building. We did nothing to prevent it , we didnt even know about it until after it happened. Where were air traffic controllers?

This goes to show that Bush and his administration have no ideas or are incapable of keeping us safe. All this tough talk yet a plane can still slam a building in NYC. If i were a terrorist i would go get a few small planes and go for a ride. Its obvious we cant do shit to stop it. All we did was get some jets in the air after it happened . Sad.









Nevermind

 

[Tarkus]

Anyone remember July 28th, 1945, when a B-52 hit the 78th floor of the Empire State Building?? Caused quite a mess. I don't personally remember it, but yeah. Anyway, I don't see why people think Bush can keep us safe, or why the even entertain the idea. Accidents can happen, and so can malicious attacks. The fact is, no one is safe from everything at any time. Anything can happen, and there is no way for anyone to have complete safety. It is ridiculous to think it is even a possibility.