SKYSCRAPER CRASH IN MILAN ITALY

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[Bommer]

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

[codebreaker]

And the windows are blown off of the floors above..

[bandlength]

next he will have been dead from natural causes upon takeoff

[nimc]

Further speculation… It's being called a 'Tourist' plane. Typically, these planes are large enough to accommodate 20 passenger/sightseers. So that would be a multiengine ship with enough mass to do considerable damage to a building. Additionally, tourist plans take off form small airstrips, WITHOUT security that now hinders hijackers at larger airports and airplanes.

[ElisabethInCincy]

lol

[jae471]

The Seneca is a twin engine plane.

[texlok]

No, but in your scenario it knows how to descend carefully to about 350 feet, level off, line itself up on the largest building in Milan and strike it dead center at the height calculated to do the maximum damage.

Have you ever seen autopilot kick in? Could be he had one of the better autopilots on board, and it kicked in at some point and pointed at the airport, and the building was in the way.

I believe the newer autopilots can do everything but the first and last few hundred feet.

[Wyatt's Torch]

BSN report the pilot was shortish-tall in height, with blondish-black hair, thinish-heavy build with bluish-brown eyes and between 20 and 90 years old...

[Tymesup]

6:42 local - 67F, partly cloudy, 38% relative humidity, wind SS# at 3 mph, sunset 8:13

[MizSterious]

Have they found the body of the pilot yet? Are they sure the body is that of a 75 year old man, and not someone who stole a 75 year old man's airplane?

[1Old Pro]

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

I'll bet 1,000 lire that it WASN'T his acne medicine.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

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

The question still to be answered is: WHY was he having problems navigating the plane?

I know it sounds far fetched, but is there any credible scenario where a terrorist would covertly rig up a private plane like this one so that a terrorist on the ground could override the pilot controls and fly the plane by remote control into the building?

[July 4th]

CNN reporting that there WAS a co-pilot.

[codebreaker]

Funny how these planes accelerate before they crash into skyscrpaers...

[texlok]

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

We have went to code brown

[Joe Hadenuf]

LOL!

[ElisabethInCincy]

Yes true on the secuiry i was wondering about it being loaded with some sort of explosives too....

[Mo1]

Unless there is a hub near downtown...

True .. but wouldn't you look for some other place to land a plane then into the side of a building??

A highway or a road would come to my mind

I'm not claiming this was a terrorist attack .. but I will say it doesn't look like an accident either

[codebreaker]

No security at the small Swiss airport I am sure..

[ElisabethInCincy]

Now he was well known in aviation circles???

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Coincidence -- just like the plane that went off the runway last November in Milan. But we've already forgotten that one.