SKYSCRAPER CRASH IN MILAN ITALY

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[Bommer]

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

[ElisabethInCincy]

oh myyyyyyy ....lol..wait u see mcdonalds in the fottage he wanted to drop by and try the new chicken select strips....

[codebreaker]

Unless there is a hub near downtown...

[brotherwolf]

I can say NO Pilot would fly into a building as this pilot did, there are always better choices. Even if his primary controls failed - there are alternatives. This was NOT an accident.

[Semper Paratus]

ITS AN ACCIDENT! REPEAT, AN ACCIDENT!!!

Too early to call it either way although a deliberate hit has circumstantial evidence.

Evidence I'd like to see
1)The SOS call, verbatim and when.
2) An accurate trajectory of the flight at least from the time of the SOS. Was it straight or were there banks and turns
3) If they know his age why not release his name?

[MJM59]

That, I am afraid is part of our microwave culture where we have to have all of the facts and have them right now. And, if we can't have the facts...well we'll sit around and speculate about every conceivable explanation and then some.

[Diddle E. Squat]

How can you be so sure that this is an accident? It is not 'tinfoil' to consider that terrorism may be an explanation for this, given all the facts known so far and the context.

So you believe that it was an accident. Fine and good. But why do you need to resort to Democrat tactics and start demeaning and calling names to people who disagree with you?

[flamefront]

Lucarno is reported to be the name of the airport outside Lugano, even closer, in Switzerland.

[DJ88]

I don't think it's passing the "smell test" either yet. Now they are trying to find out the "identity" of this pilot. I thought we already knew, since they knew how old he is....they would know who he was. Duh. How stupid do they think we are?

[monkeywrench]

Fox just reported 75 yrs. old.

[ElisabethInCincy]

any more new on our color code alert ????

[thinden]

any mention of weather conditions?

[codebreaker]

Hmmm... an experienced pilot?

[ctdonath2]

The 25th floor is not the center of a 30 floor building.

I was referring to the horizontal positioning (after hitting "post" I figured you'd miss the point). Look at the pictures - such a hit is hard enough to do intentionally.

If the pilot had no control of the flaps,

then he would have had to be intentionally flying straight and level at the building the moment ALL directional controls failed, a particular minute of angle (or less). Supremely unlikely.

Or are you saying that it is with 100% certainty that it can never ever happen?

There is one law of probability: small enough probabilities don't happen in real life.

Pointing the plane in the right horizontal direction would have been at best a 1/1296000 chance (one second of angle), multiplied by the chance of all 5 directional controls (four vertical, one horizontal) failing simultaniously at the moment he's pointing in that particular direction. Look at the crash photos again, with the impact perfectly horizontally centered, and an aesthetic distance from the top of the building - do you REALLY think this was just an accident?

There is a chance that all the air in this room will suddenly flow into my cube and implode me with the pressure. I'm not worried about it. Nor do I think that crash was accidental; maybe not terrorist per se, but not an accident.

[Utopia]

Try this. The pilot suffers an major heart attack and trys radioing an SOS, but he dies.

If the pilot lost an engine and then died, the plane (a light twin engine model) would not hit the building straight and level which it did.

[alisasny]

Isn't April 19th the anniversary of the "shot heard round the world?"

[Joe Hadenuf]

Anyone know if the building is still on fire. Is there a current live shot of the building.

[ElisabethInCincy]

so we have a 60-65 yr old...a 70 yr old...now a 75 yr old..???

[DJ88]

Let me look.

[Interesting Times]

Italian authorities just announced that this was an accident - smoke was coming from the plane before it hit - pilot said he was having problems with flying the plane - pilot sent an SOS - just reported in a statement from Italian Authorities. So there you have it...

Well, I guess that closes the matter.

On a different topic, do you have any interest in buying some extremely valuable swamp land in Florida?

[thinden]

italian vacation trip cancelled until further notice.