Posted on 04/18/2002 9:06:38 AM PDT by Bommer
Just reported that a small engine plane crashed into a Skyscraper in Milan Italy
Milan, airplane crashes against skyscraper Region
Scajola: " The hypothesis is that one of the incident "
MILAN - a piper, an aerial small from tourism, has crashed around to the 18 against against the Pirelli skyscraper to Milan, center of the Lombardy Region, in Duca large square of Aosta. The aircraft, second first information, were already in flames before the collision and the pilot would have launch a Sos. the airplane, that she would be taken off from Locarno, in Switzerland, around to the 17.15, has threaded itself between 20esimo and the 27esimo slowly of the Pirellone, sventrandolo. The incident would have provoked two died and various ones at least hurt.
The National Fire Departments, a ottantina those I noticed to the Pirellone, have evacuated all the skyscraper and extinguished the fire exploded in the plans hit from the airplane. Fortunately in the last plans of the palace the persons were little because they were still in course works of restructure. The National Fire Departments are verifying the ascensori and they are bringing back them to the plans. They are flowed in Piazza Duca Of Aosta helicopters of the National Fire Departments from Varese, Genoa, Torino and Venice with the Saf units while the police officers have launch an appeal, through the television, because all the doctors available in the from Milan area o to the Pirellone.
The impact of the airplane coll' building has provoked one fallen of detritus on all the public square and on the land the scrap irons of a wing of airplane of tourist type are obvious. The opening of the outbreak is on all the forehead of the vetrate ones of the Pirellone. It comes indicated like one risen of ' hurt trapassante' through the skyscraper.
" Much smoke was looked at that it comes is give under that they give over ", has told present Reuters journalist, adding that the zone is barred. " I have felt a strongest noise and then I have seen of the fire ", has said to usciere of the Gallia hotel, than it is found to little meters from the palace. " A piper it flew very low, then I have felt an outbreak that it seemed to come from Course Buenos Aires (to north of the palace), I have seen a lightning bolt and I have understood that that one was alone an echo ", has said a policeman.
Other eyewitnesses add of to have felt a fort botto while from the large square of the Station, that it is near the Pirellone, the high plans of the skyscraper in flames can be seen. Also from line 3 of the Metropolitan, that he passes close from the central Station (to where rises the skyscraper) has disseminated much smoke. In all the area around the Pirelli skyscraper the telephone communications also cellular way are interrupted or nearly impossible.
The Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been informed in its flight of return in Italy from Sofia of the outbreak to the Pirellone. The premier as soon as arrived to Rome Claudius Scajola has put itself in contact with the minister of the Inside which he has said that " the first information in possession of the Viminale make to incline for an incident ". At first the president of the Senate Marcello pear in classroom had spoken about " probable terroristic action " in order then to corregersi little after. To Palazzo Chigi it has been re-united the crisis unit. According to how much reported from the House White woman also the president American George W. Bush has been informed of the outbreak, in the fear that was be a matter of an attack.
Despite public pressure, Al-Jazeera to air Al-Qaeda tape
AP
Dubai, April 17
"We will go ahead and air the tape. I've received many phone calls, faxes and e-mails asking me not to broadcast it, but its a reaction I expected," Ibrahim Hilal, chief editor of Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, said in a telephone interview.
Al-Jazeera has since Monday been previewing excerpts of the tape, which includes threats against the United States from a man identified as one of the September 11 hijackers and bin Laden top deputy proclaiming the terror attacks a "great victory". The station planned to broadcast the entire tape on Thursday.
Al-Jazeera has said the tape was the "first evidence linking bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network to the attacks on New York and Washington".
Hilal said the criticism he has faced over the tape showed the Arab public was the victim of years of state-run media and that the grip on information must be broken.
"Do I have the right to hold back a tape because I don't like it? We should not bury our heads in the sand," Hilal said.
Hilal said the new details revealed in the tape, including the suspected hijacker's confession, dictated the tape should be aired.
He described the tape as "highly emotional, filled with footage from Palestine, with Palestinians being killed by Israelis".
The tape, titled "the wills of the martyrs of the raids on Washington and New York," and includes pictures of the 19 hijackers.
Hilal said the hour-long tape was clearly made in a production house. He said the video was hand delivered to the station's Qatar offices a week ago, but did not know when it was made.
Al-Jazeera has since Monday been previewing excerpts of the tape, which includes threats against the United States from a man identified as one of the September 11 hijackers and bin Laden top deputy proclaiming the terror attacks a "great victory". The station planned to broadcast the entire tape on Thursday.
Wow, you are right! What a coincidence, eh????
Sorry for your loss.
Actually, the date of April 19th goes a long way back in our history. It was the day that the militia consisting of all men over the age of 16 were called out to the village square. They spent the day electing officers and drilling. It became known as "Patriots Day".
Strange .. yes just a bit ..
I ain't buying this was just an accident .. there is MORE to this
Name some.
Mike
The '93 St. Estephe is very good, as well as 97-99 Pouilly-Fuisse.
Assuming this was a larger one (Malibu), comming from Switzerland would have left him with about 900lbs of fuel; comming from Slovenia he would have had maybe 400lbs (65 gal) left. (But these are just rough guesses)
Sorry, there is a thing called appropriateness. Here on FR we usually bemoan the increasing ignoring of this etiquette. But a few feel that its more important to show how witty they are than to respect the situation. I'm not talking about the natural response to turn to humor to deal with difficult issues. But when a crash happens, with likely deaths(and a few minutes into the reporting of this, with a fire, how could anyone know for sure that there was zero risk of the building later collapsing, that it wasn't a terrorist act), its not good fodder for jokes. 3 dead so far, isn't that hilarious?
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