aircraft crashed in building in manhatten

Dr. Jack · #1 10-11-2006, 01:57 PM

don't know details. news broke in. thinks it's a helicopter

Deck · #2 10-11-2006, 02:06 PM

on cnn now

Dr. Jack · #3 10-11-2006, 02:10 PM

Aircraft crashes into New York building
POSTED: 3:02 p.m. EDT, October 11, 2006

NEW YORK (AP) -- Police say an aircraft has crashed into a building on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 72nd Street and York Avenue. It is near Rockefeller Center.

There was no word on casualties.

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

It's unclear if it was a small plane or a helicopter.

Deck · #4 10-11-2006, 02:12 PM

Faa says it was a small plane.

The Judge · #5 10-11-2006, 02:22 PM

Just think of what must be going through those people's minds.

Dr. Jack · #6 10-11-2006, 02:28 PM

As a precaution, combat fighter jets around us major cities although terrorism not expected

guzzi · #7 10-11-2006, 02:28 PM

up go da fighter aircraft...

just before da electionz...

The Judge · #8 10-11-2006, 02:29 PM

Aircraft crashes into Manhattan high-rise
POSTED: 3:27 p.m. EDT, October 11, 2006
NEW YORK (CNN) -- An aircraft has crashed into the middle of a brick luxury high-rise residential building on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 72nd Street and York Avenue, police officials said.

The building is very close to the East River. There was no word on casualties as firefighters battled the flames that shot up from several windows in the middle of the building. The Federal Aviation Administration has said a "general aviation" aircraft had hit the building.

A North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) spokesperson, which monitors air traffic, told CNN that it had not been tracking the aircraft.

Witness Sarah Steiner told CNN that 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."

Steiner said that when she arrived, she saw fire shooting out of two windows on the 30th floor of the 50-story building.

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