Posted on 06/26/2026 7:19:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
A small plane crashes into a 109-story skyscraper in Beijing, sending debris down the building's side.
Local reports say the pilot Liu Junhua was conducting a solo flight in the local airspace, took off from Shifosi Airport at 17:30, and at 17:40 prepared to return for landing. While joining the westbound route for Runway 18, the aircraft did not join the approach, deviated from the local airspace and continued flying on a constant heading of 270 degrees.
VIDEO AT LINK..................
He didn’t realize that the pattern was full.
(not the actual plane)
Other sources are reporting it was a Chinese-made light-sport aircraft, the Sunward SA 60L Aurora, base price 2024 of $147,000 USD (but I see used models on offer now for north of $150k). 2-seater (Cessna 152 replacement?) with a Rotax engine.
A lot of families still use coal or charcoal fired stoves as well.
I just spit my coffee out on that one.
Damn building pulled right out in front of him.
Looking at the flight pattern, it was either suicide or a medical incident..............
And one engine went down through an elevator shaft...
I recall seeing a video of why planes crash some years ago. A private pilot decided to do some sight seeing around NYC. When the pilot decided to make a turn, the wind and the micro climate of NYC pushed the pilot in to a high-rise building.
Poke flied rise
What was the pilots name? Wong Wei?
Way back machine for George of the Jungle. I now have that tune stuck in my head, thank you/s.
Same with India, the other "most populous" country in the world. Which is why this CO2 nonsense is literally insane. Because at least 30% of the world's population still burns carbon-laden fuel to meet their survival needs. Not just families, businesses as well. The Indian subcontinent is very hot until you get north into the foothills of the Himalayas. In those foothill cities, businesses use charcoal braziers for heat in the cool months. Walk into a grocery store or a pharmacy and there's a smoldering brazier sitting next to the door.
So they're not ony burning coal but charcoal as well. Plus cow and buffalo dung. The most popular tractor in India is a water buffalo, and India (like China) has no end of rice paddies, and they use the buffalo to till them. Which means they've got tons of buffalo dung to contend with.
They scoop it out by hand and form it into a conveniently transportable size. Looks like a giant oatmeal cookie. There's also a YUGE amount of methane bound up in the dried poo.
The process isn't unlike the Scots digging up peat and drying it out for fuel (peat fires, IMHO, smell even worse than coal fires). The American pioneers in the plains states also burned "buffalo chips" because trees were so scarce in their neck of the ... plains. It's still done all over the more primitive gerions of Asia, probably the rest of the underdeveloped world, too. https://energypedia.info/wiki/Cooking_with_Dung
Last transmission on radio?
Well dang what’s this building up here.
Cute little plane. It probably shouldn’t be used as a bulldozer.
My (sometimes overly protective) malware software informed me that it blocked a suspicious item.
I'm not opening any of the links, someone with better abilities than me should examine to see if real or a false alarm.
And away he’ll schlep on his elephant Shep
While Stella and Ursula stay in step
I think I still know all the words to that theme song, and Super Chicken, and Milton the Monster, and...
But I can’t remember what I went in the other room to get.
In terrible weather
medical condition?
nope, just hates the Godless communist Chi Coms.
Surprisingly, it's about the same cost, $125 per hour wet rental on up. In America, ambulance chasers dove general aviation into the ground, however most countries in Asia don't work that way. With China's huge economies of scale customer base and low-cost manufacturing skills, they could manufacture small airplanes cheaper than cars. And like motorcycles, that would open up a new source of frequent organ donations so the communist party would no longer need to resort to murder. If China kept to electric airplanes, there would be less security concern as electric range and lifting capacity isn't much.
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