Posted on 06/26/2026 6:49:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A small single engine aircraft crashed into the tallest building in Beijing, China Friday. Flight data indicates that the plane likely did not suffer an engine failure when it flew into Beijing airspace, which is heavily restricted to aviation. These facts have led some to posit that the incident appears to be an act of terrorism.
“So there is a lot pointing to the fact that this was not some kind of a failure,” host of The China Show Winston Sterzel said. “It looks like it was deliberately flown into the building.”
The 108-story CITIC Tower, also called the China Zun building, is located in the central business district of the city. According to Reuters, the building is the headquarters of the state-owned conglomerate CITIC Group. The structure is very close to the seat of the Chinese government.
The internet in China is heavily censored from Western websites. Known as “The Great Firewall of China” it bans citizens from accessing many non-Chinese social media platforms and news websites as part of its authoritarian brainwashing operations.
According to Reuters and The China Show, the Chinese social media sites quickly scrubbed images of the incident.
Images of the incident show minor damage to the building, mostly localized to the impact zone.
Image credit: A hole is seen (R) on the side of the CITIC Tower in Beijing on June 26, 2026, after an eyewitness reported plane debris at the base of Beijing’s tallest building. Video footage taken from a nearby building by the witness showed fire trucks blasting water at smoke billowing from the 528-metre (1,732-foot) CITIC Tower, while the wreck of a plane lay on the ground beside the building. (Photo by Peter CATTERALL / AFP via Getty Images)
The communist Chinese government immediately went into coverup mode.
Reuters reported on the CCP attempt to limit information surrounding the event:
POLICE ASK PEOPLE TO DELETE FOOTAGE OF INCIDENT
He shot a video of the aircraft sticking out of the building, he said, but later deleted it because he was scared of getting caught by police.
Police were preventing people from taking pictures and asking others to delete those they had taken while ushering people away from the building, with dozens of police cars and several fire trucks lining nearby roads.
Another courier said he had come to the scene after seeing unverified social media images showing the wreckage of a small aircraft on a road next to the building.
Social media posts of the building on Friday were quickly removed from Chinese social media. A search of the building’s name on the Xiaohongshu app, or Red Note, returned only posts dated Thursday.
Reuters was on-the-ground from Beijing during the incident:
It was unclear if the crash was deliberate or accidental. Airspace is heavily restricted in downtown Beijing.
One of the bystanders at the scene told Reuters he heard the loud crash too, and that “it’s very strange for a plane to fly into this area.”
A police officer later told Reuters journalists to leave. Asked why, the officer said: “We all know why!”
Suicide or medical incident.........
Looks like a bat from a Wuhan market lost its way and rammed into a building in Beijing.
Or a final political statement.
They are going to need a bigger plane....
Or murder.........
I wonder why kind of pressure China is going to put on X to remove these posts.
^what kind
WIKI
China Zun is a mixed-use building, featuring 60 floors of office space, 20 floors of luxury apartments and 20 floors of hotel with 300 rooms. There will be a rooftop garden on the top floor at 522 m (1,713 ft) high.
The tower is likely to remain the tallest building in Beijing for the foreseeable future, as in 2018 authorities capped new projects in the central business district to a height of no more than 180 m (590 ft) in a bid to reduce congestion.
On 26 June 2026, a Sunward SA 60L Aurora aircraft crashed into the upper floors of the building. According to flight data from Flightradar24, the aircraft was following “a severely deviated flight path”. Bystanders were told by authorities not to film the scene, and videos posted to Chinese social media sites were subsequently taken down.
The building has a total of seven office areas. Among them, Areas 1–3, Area 5 and Area 7 are occupied by China CITIC Bank, Alibaba and CITIC Group respectively, becoming the main tenants of China Zun; the remaining office areas are leased to Fortune Global 500 Enterprises and financial institutions, including China Construction Bank.
Floors
89–102 Office Area #7 (China CITIC Group Headquarters)
59–72 Office Area #5 (Alibaba Group and its subordinate Ant Group)
31–42 Office Area #3 (CITIC Bank Head Offices)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Zun
WIKI
The Aurora was designed to comply with the US light-sport aircraft rules. It features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The aircraft’s 8.6 m (28.2 ft) span wing has a rectangular planform and employs flaps. The standard engine available is the Austrian-made 75 kW (100 hp) Rotax 912ULS four-stroke powerplant.
A Sunward SA 60L Aurora owned by a local general aviation company crashed into the China Zun, on 26 June 2026.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunward_SA_60L_Aurora
“A no‑fly zone is normally in place over Beijing, and the incident occurred in a restricted airspace”
Yahoo via Copilot
Islamists: “Amateur.”
Joe stack strikes again. When Airplanes run into skyscrapers it’s not an accident I’ve come to learn
Reminds me of Cory Lidle,, baseball pitcher who crashed his plane into a skyscraper in 2006
Lidle didn’t do it on purpose. Pretty sure this guy did.
Who would dare to directly terrorize China?
China is held by far fewer humanitarian constraints than the USA. They are far less likely to fall for any alibi based on the terrorist’s ‘feelings’ than too many within America.
Somebody who plans on being DRT.
“Reminds me of Cory Lidle,, baseball pitcher who crashed his plane into a skyscraper in 2006”
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Yep, there have been a number of people run their planes into buildings, and few of them were terrorists.
Remember the nutter who slammed his plane into the White House?
There can’t be that many small private planes in China, so we’ll eventually find out who the pilot was.
Who knew Uyghurs could fly?
Sheesh yes.
Then there was that dude who landed a plane in the middle of Moscow Square at the end of the Cold War...sort of a tangent there.
scuttlebutt says this guys did it on purpose. Gotta wonder then who was on the receiving end in one of those suites?
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