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SKYSCRAPER CRASH IN MILAN ITALY
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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


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: smallplanecrash
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To: Diddle E. Squat
And the windows are blown off of the floors above..
641 posted on 04/18/2002 10:46:27 AM PDT by codebreaker
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To: ElisabethInCincy
next he will have been dead from natural causes upon takeoff
642 posted on 04/18/2002 10:46:47 AM PDT by bandlength
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To: kezekiel
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.
643 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:04 AM PDT by nimc
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To: bandlength
lol
644 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:05 AM PDT by ElisabethInCincy
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To: Joe Hadenuf
The Seneca is a twin engine plane.
645 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:05 AM PDT by jae471
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To: Interesting Times
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.

646 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:07 AM PDT by texlok
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To: ElisabethInCincy
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...
647 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:08 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: Tymesup
6:42 local - 67F, partly cloudy, 38% relative humidity, wind SS# at 3 mph, sunset 8:13
648 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:28 AM PDT by Tymesup
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To: xJones; TravisMcGee
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?
649 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:32 AM PDT by MizSterious
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To: Lazamataz
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.

650 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 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

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?

651 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:41 AM PDT by Stefan Stackhouse
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To: ElisabethInCincy
CNN reporting that there WAS a co-pilot.
652 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:43 AM PDT by July 4th
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To: bandlength
Funny how these planes accelerate before they crash into skyscrpaers...
653 posted on 04/18/2002 10:47:56 AM PDT by codebreaker
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To: ElisabethInCincy
any more new on our color code alert ????

We have went to code brown

654 posted on 04/18/2002 10:48:21 AM PDT by texlok
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To: wheezer
LOL!
655 posted on 04/18/2002 10:48:22 AM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: jae471
Yes true on the secuiry i was wondering about it being loaded with some sort of explosives too....
656 posted on 04/18/2002 10:48:22 AM PDT by ElisabethInCincy
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To: codebreaker
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

657 posted on 04/18/2002 10:48:35 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: nimc
No security at the small Swiss airport I am sure..
658 posted on 04/18/2002 10:48:48 AM PDT by codebreaker
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To: ElisabethInCincy
Now he was well known in aviation circles???
659 posted on 04/18/2002 10:49:08 AM PDT by ElisabethInCincy
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To: Travis McGee
Coincidence -- just like the plane that went off the runway last November in Milan. But we've already forgotten that one.
660 posted on 04/18/2002 10:49:08 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
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