UPDATE: Aircraft hit building at 71st and York Ave on East Side of Manhattan

Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | 10/11/06 | Rush Limbaugh

[Yossarian]

Rush reports that a Cessna has been reported as crashing into (at least one) apartment complex in NYC Mannhattan's upper east side - on East 71st Street.

[Toby06]

Okay, I'll be the first: 10/11

Not first. Quilla's daughter beat you.

[weegee]

We were told that Charles Bishop's plane crash was "accidental" too even though he called it a terrorist act in his suicide letter.

I even remember the nut in the Cessna who fired on Boston one night back in the 1980s.

[chuknospam]

Just a errie observation

10/11/06 rotated about the 11 equals 09/11/01

[PilloryHillary]

Witness on CNN describes it as "like somebody flew a plane into your living room".

[Alberta's Child]

The fact that they don't even know for sure whether it was an airplane or a helicopter is a good indication of just how unreliable eyewitness accounts can be.

[Texas4ever]

What do you mean by two?

[fatima]

Thank God.

[FreeperinRATcage]

Looks like they got water on the fire on the ower apartments,,saw it darken down.

[gaijin]

A helo or plane wrenching at odd attitudes b4 crash (and into lower-value target) might also be consistent with an in-cockpit STRUGGLE.

Like if a muzzie had taken the copter hostage. And had presented plan A as premise, only to have it dawn on pilot/passengers that plan B was playing out....

[Xth Legion]

Thanks for that info.

[TomGuy]

40ieth to 47th floors on fire, per CNN

[TankerKC]

She instantly responded, "This is 10-11."

What are the odds?

...about 1 in 30.

[cgk]

Prayers for those who are trapped. Prayers for the police and fire personnel who are trying to rescue them.

Ditto!

[eastsider]

I leave my kitchen window open. When the wind is blowing from west to east, air is pulled out; but when it's blowing east to west -- as it is today -- air comes in. And since I'm just west of the crash site ...

[bwteim]

I wasn't trying to be flippant. Helicopters are not easy to fly. And if you disregard the terrorist angle, about the only way you'd fly into a building is by accident - whether pilot error, mechanical failure, collision with an object, weather, etc.

[Bahbah]

it may be an overstatment, but that is what CNN is saying.

Yes, I just didn't want you to think it was worse than it was.

[Solamente]

Newscopters asked to back off, probably fanning the flames!?!

[Arkinsaw]

Out of all the buildings in New York, why would a terrorist select some apartment building.

[sola_fide]

Yep, I'm hearing that too about small, multi-engine plane. Also heard reporter (forget his name) on CNN say that a GA aircraft flying VFR would have no business in this area. Not jumping to conclusions, but sounds fishy.

[conservative in nyc]

New Yorkers might remember that eerie incident about 10-15 years ago in which a traffic helicopter crashed in the river (I don't remember if it was the Hudson River or the East River) while the traffic reporter was on the air live.

I think the WNBC chopper crash was into the Passaic River in New Jersey.