SKYSCRAPER CRASH IN MILAN ITALY

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[Bommer]

Just reported that a small engine plane crashed into a Skyscraper in Milan Italy

[Utopia]

ITS AN ACCIDENT! REPEAT, AN ACCIDENT!!!
How do you know? There are far too many inconsistencies. Whether or not it was terrorism, it at the very least indicates a pilot with serious psychological problems. I can't think of any reason for a competent pilot to slam into a building even with engine trouble.

[StriperSniper]

That was a B-25 at night in heavy fog, not 6 P.M. with a clear blue sky. Apples and oranges.

[Delbert]

I in no way said this accident was funny. Any loss of life is a tragedy. What is funny is the way you guys took a plane crash and turned into a geriatric attack on western civilization.

[dawn53]

Just an observation.

A plane crashing into a house is alot different than a plane crashing into a skyscraper.

[bandlength]

amen.

[areafiftyone]

Planes do crash into buildings sometimes. Name some.

A U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in New York in heavy fog. The crash killed both crew members and eleven people in the building. (July 28, 1945)

[r9etb]

Piper Seneca

Specifications:
4570 lbs maximum gross weight
3200 lbs typical empty weight
1370 lbs typical useful load
200 hp per engine at sea level, 215 hp at 12000 ft
225 mph max cruise speed
185 mph recommended cruise speed
70 mph stall in landing configuration
93 - 123 gallons usable fuel capacity
25,000 feet all engine service ceiling
14,400 feet single engine service ceiling
1200 feet per minute all engine rate of climb
190 feet per minute single engine rate of climb
1030 feet for take off over 50-foot obstruction
750 feet for take off ground roll
1720 feet land over 50-foot obstruction
950 landing ground roll
28 ft. 07 in. length
9 ft. 11 in. height
38 ft. 11 in. wing span

[Kaslin]

I wished people here would stop making speculations and instead use logic. Of course I can understand that at first a terrosim act comes to mind. But if you think about it would a 'suicide bomber' choose a time to crash a plane in a building when it was empty to avoid killing innocent people? I don't think so

[Joe Hadenuf]

Reports now stating many have died and lots of injured.

[codebreaker]

Is that maximum damage physics/weight wise, the 25th floor of 30...

[Bommer]

You challenge was to name one, not currcumvent the circumstances! It can happen in good or bad weather. If he lost hydrolics or had a major heart attack it sure as hell can happen on a sunny day. The pilot is reported to be 70 years old BTW.

[Travis McGee]

Nope the guy was Swiss - not an arab at all -

And the shoe bomber guy was a Brit ..

No one has mentioned the possibility yet that the manifested 70 year old Swiss pilot was not at the controls for the crash.

If (all speculation here) he was going up for a scheduled solo flight, it would be easy for a ground crew/terrorist to hide in the plane and take it over in the air. That would also explain the 6pm strike: the schedule was a matter of opportunism in this (speculative) scenario.

[Diddle E. Squat]

While I agree that it is silly how every incident is viewed by some as either OBL, anthrax/smallpox/botulism, or a sign of the Apocalypse, speculation that this is terrorism is CERTAINLY reasonable. Can you cite an example of a plane crashing into a skyscraper before 9/11? The odds of a plane, even with engine trouble, crashing into a tall building is astronomical, considering how very, very little of the overall landscape a single building takes up. And then to hit it in the center. The only reasonable explanation I've heard so far is that the pilot was trying to land on a wide street nearby.

[DJ88]

So, a 70-year old man, who we would assume has been flying for a very long time, and maybe has taken this trip many, many times, just all of the sudden "forgets" there is a building there?

May I also mention that there was a HUGE train station nearby where people would have been going to?

It may very well be an accident. But it may very well not have been an accident.

[Lucas1]

News is reporting that the pilot sent a message to control tower saying he was having problems navigating the plane and sent out an SOS - so there you have it - it was a very freak accident. Not a terrorist attack of any form. It happens - rare but it happens

[Walkin Man]

Something made a big enough explosion to blow out both sides of a concrete skyscraper. Unless the plane(a small one supposedly) was full of fuel at the time you have to think it was something else.

[betty boop]

Twenty lire bet that the pilot was of Arab extraction or is a practicing Muslim.

Either that, or he was "allergic" to his acne medicine.

[codebreaker]

I'm still worried about the strucural integrity of the building with a full tank of fuel on that plane.

[Lucas1]

Why yes I can...it happened in Canada a few years ago - a hospital - plane had problems with navigation and crashed into the building. It happens. Take the tin hats off and move onto the next story. This was an accident.