Breaking news -What's going on? Another 9/11?

[Francko]

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

Aircraft hits New York building

A small plane has crashed into a building in New York City.
It happened on the Upper East Side of Manhattan island.

TV pictures show flames coming out of the high-rise building.

More to follow.

[Gonzo]

Breaking news

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

Aircraft hits New York building

A small plane has crashed into a building in New York City.
It happened on the Upper East Side of Manhattan island.

TV pictures show flames coming out of the high-rise building.

More to follow.

Didn't a similar thing happen in Miami a couple of years ago - turned out to be a local idiot. Give Al Queda a bit more credit!

(I will have to delete this post if it turns out to be a particularly nasty incident...)

[Chico]

It appears to be a tragic accident, a fixed wing plane, 2 dead.

[hyperD]

Just heard a rumour that it was USA baseplayer Corie Lidle:

Cory Lidle, who has been a major league pitcher for nine years and a pilot for seven months, is 3-2 with a 3.38 earned run average in six starts with the Yankees. (Sep 2006)

[hyperD]

More here:-

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/NASAp...=.jsp&c_id=nyy

Cirrus SR20 plane with parachute and expected to fly with instructor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/sp...rssnyt&emc=rss

[mcquiggd]

Beats me why people are allowed to fly light aircraft training flights around major cities. A friend used to do so while undertaking his pilots licence before 9/11, including overflying Manhattan, but I thought all such flights had subsequently banned in the US...?

[hyperD]

Beats me why people are allowed to fly light aircraft training flights around major cities. A friend used to do so while undertaking his pilots licence before 9/11, including overflying Manhattan, but I thought all such flights had subsequently banned in the US...?

Ever since Yankees captain Thurman Munson died in 1979 it's been a club requirement that they fly with instructors - he wasn't under instruction as he already had his licence.

They were flying down the Hudson River Corridor. The class B starts at 1100AGL which doesn't give much room for error as the ceiling was around 1800. During sports events etc the corridor is closed.

The latest rumours are suggesting that as a mayday call was made it was either a fuel problem or as some people having access to the JFK radar images that there may have been a mid-air collision.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Surely the hand of North Korea was behind this terror outrage ??!!

On second thoughts make that Iran, or even Croatia...

[bogeyman]

9/11, 10/12?

Spooky! Now don't tell me this is just a coincidence!

Just wait until the 13th of November when a giant alien lizard thing will fly its spaceship into the UN building, with Paul McCartney in the jump seat.

[Mailman]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...ircraft203.jpg

My god, there is no way tha was caused by a plane! I bet it was a cruise missile or a global hawk!

Mailman