Aircraft crashes into New York building

There is no indication of terrorism at this point and it is clear from vidoe that this is not a large commercial aircraft.

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CNN.com story, with very little detail

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Oh great, here we go...

*locks in safety bar*

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Today in Oct. 11. al Qaeda is not known for dates, though I thought I'd throw that out.

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They have now deployed the combat air patrol system over numerous cities.

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tomorrow is oct 12. UNless planet X does weird stuff.

I assume the building is safely evacuated now? How large is the building?

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Looks like an accident. Or a suicide.

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According to CNN.com, it is a 50 story residential building, looks like the fire is confined to a small portion of the building.

No info, but my gut says accident with a small aircraft, not terrorists.

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Certainly no terrorists.

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You don't know that.

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from CNN.com

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Smells like suicide, but of course my guess is as good as yours. I hope nobody inside got killed.

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1 death reported thus far.

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according to news24, it was a helicopter.

probably a business helicopter shuttling executives around.

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from cnn.com

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Have any of our urbanites noticed the combat air patrols around their city?

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Looks like the fire's out,the general concensus seems to be that it's an accident.

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A witness pilot identified it without a doubt to be a plane.

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Well, common sense says that terrorists don't strike apartment buildings with small planes. This looks very much like a tragic accident. A suicide like what happened in Milan, Italy can't be dismissed yet.

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Frankly you can't dismiss anything, however unlikely it is.

Let me ask you this, what is more scary, the fact that a plane may attack a small building, or that they only go for the biggest ones meaning the majority of people are safe?

It's called terrorism for a reason.

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well, there is nothing to stop a drunk pilot getting into his own private plane and flying off, or is there?

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Didn't a copycat suicide in the US happen with a small aircraft shortly after 9/11?

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Nor anything to stop a troubled teenager under the (possible) influence of acne medicines, as happened in Miami a few months after 9/11. He stole a plane and flew it into an office building. He was the only casualty.

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The bar has been lowered for the promotion of ATM ideas; the bar for the acceptance of ATM ideas must remain high.

For crying out loud! The "fear" potential is going to be wrung out as extensively as possible by the irresponsible media and partisan authorities as it is.

I'm becoming convinced that nobody actually has to do anything to get this country to disassemble itself. Insecurity, paranoia, the more-than-willing-to-exploit-the-fear politicians and the more-than-willing-to-give-up-rights-out-of-fear souls will do it all.

I just alluded to it simultaneously with your post. I think the Florida suicide happened first, so unless someone with better memory comes along it looks like it's time to hit Google!

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Yes, I forgot that one since it was far less dramatic. The events occurred near each another.

Both accidents occurred in 2002, Tampa crash on January 5th and Milan crash on April 18th.

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Sure you can. In fact I'd say dismissability is directly proportional to unlikelyhood.

I'm going to have to go with equally scary, because they both rate about a 0 on my scare-o-meter. I don't live my life fearing things that have about a 1 in a million chance of killing me.

What makes you think this is anything other than an accident?

Calm down people.

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if you want a rage, go to loosechange...

that would keep it nice and calm here.

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To be fair, Dragon star was responding to someone who posted that "it certainly isn't terrorism".

I agree that terrorism is unlikely, especially given some eyewitness reports (one said that the nose dipped severely at end, interpreted by an MSNBC reporter as a plane in a stall). But until more details come out, any conclusion is premature.