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.

[sageb1]

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/priv/mndist8.shtml

scroll down to 2nd map for building location

[Bobibutu]

"Helicopters are not easy to fly."

Huh? How about Helicopters, for some people, are not easy to LEARN to fly.

The guys I flew with in Nam sure made it look easy (120 kts @ 5 feet over the rice paddies hopping over grazing water buffalo) with no apparent effort on their part other than the smile on their faces.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Doing acrobatics?.....maybe have control problems....

[sola_fide]

From the picutres I'm seeing on TV now, looks like the fire is either under control or out. Just a lot of smoke at this time.

[JRochelle]

Shep turns into stupid in breaking news events.

Earlier he said, "We have a report that one people is dead"

Shep sucks!

[LibertyLee]

The answer is: we're in the FOG of war...initial reports are almost NEVER accurate until the people are out and the debris is cleared and the reports are checked...just hang in there, an unknown aircraft, now possibly a small fixed wing (not Helicopter) airframe has crashed into the apartment. The cause is UNKNOWN and we don't know yet much beyond that...

No criticism of ANYONE here, but please, if we all report FACTUAL material we can get better explanations...

[OldFriend]

WABC radio now reporting that it was a helicopter that crashed into the 20th. story of a 39 story building.

[bwteim]

LOL LOL.

I have images turned off in my browser, then clicked on your pic. Got two laughs in one post;)

[Chena]

Shep Smith at Fox says people have no water and food and are starving..

teehee ;)

[COEXERJ145]

Something similar to this perhaps.

[conservative in nyc]

WCBS says they are also evacuating 520 E 72nd as a precaution.

[xmission]

Amen, and Thanks.

[Rutles4Ever]

But apparently no mayday?

[Pukin Dog]

What is a fixed-wing airplane?

Well, its just about all of them. LOL. Exceptions would be my old bird, tiltrotors, ultralights and hang gliders.

[pabianice]

Fox reporter screwing-up description of an aerodynamic stall...

[maggief]

[groanup]

If this was an attack it sure didn't bother the Dow. Up 50 points since just before the news broke.

[Wil H]

A fixed wing plane is a conventional airplane as opposed to a helicopter or autogyro. the blades of a helicopter or autogyro are considered to be rotating wings.

[mnehring]

Ask me sometimes about how many ways that human beings have found to fly airplanes into things that you think they would miss.

You are correct, it is quite often actually... every 'accident' involving an accident will hit something, be it a building, hanger, tree, river, ground, etc.. If it were an accident over NYC, the odds of hit hitting a building versus not are pretty clear..

[dead]

Shep Smith at Fox says people have no water and food and are starving..

Has Geraldo shown up to save Shep yet?