Posted on 10/11/2006 1:51:24 PM PDT by Irontank
small plane crashed into a 50-story luxury high-rise building on Manhattan's Upper East Side Wednesday, igniting a raging fire, killing at least two and initially trapping people on the floors above the point of impact.
New York Police Department officials said two were confirmed dead and there could be more fatalities.
The plane hit the building, located at 524 East 72nd Street, 20 floors above space occupied by the Hospital for Special Surgery.
The New York Fire Department told FOX News that there were people trapped above the point of impact, but the NYPD later said that all occupants located above the fire-ravaged floors had been evacuated.
By 3:30 p.m. ET, the blaze was reported to have been extinguished.
FBI spokeswoman Christine Monaco said there was no indication the crash — which happened five years and one month after Sept. 11, 2001 — was a terrorist attack, but officials "have been sent to the scene as a routine."
"The initial indication is that there is a terrible accident," said Department of Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke. Fighter jets, however, were scrambled and were patrolling the skies above major cities as a precaution, according to Defense Department officials.
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I heard from one of the A's here near Oakland that he and Kevin used to play pranks on Cory's pitching coach by putting Cory's uni on Kevin and sending him down to do the work... pretty funny.
one of the angels looks like Nixon - I'm sure it wasn't meant as a compliment.
Yeah, I did read that they were both pranksters, which is why I wouldn't have been surprised if the person who was seen at TJ's was Kevin - except for the nasty remark about Cory, which I can't imagine.
He (Stanger) had been a Mormon missionary for two years, also.
Ha, I thought it looked like LBJ.
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