SKYSCRAPER CRASH IN MILAN ITALY

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[Bommer]

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

[VRWC_minion]

You want real interesting check out my 884 post.

[cmsgop]

This could be the type of Aero Commander.......

[Diddle E. Squat]

Nice try, but you forgot that the right-side tail fin as too large. My guess is that baby would fly in circles.

[codebreaker]

MSNBC just showed a translator composing 'Weekend at Osama's -The Sequel' for us after the break live..

[aristeides]

Thanks for reporting this to those of us stuck in offices. It's a great pity it wasn't possible to evacuate people from the roof of the WTC.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Remember the plane that went off the runway in Milan last November?

[Travis McGee]

Aiming for that building is my guess.

[Mo1]

Oh ok

[dawn53]

Not sure, but it was one of the tallest and it was a financial building, one of the bank buildings I think.

He hit a corner of the building, but he was being chased by Coast Guard.

He failed to answer hailing so they figured he was up to no good.

This guy might have been smarter, call in an SOS and they let you do anything you want while you select your target.

[bootless]

Flying a non-airline aircraft does not have the age 60 limit that US carriers do. In fact, foreign air carriers have a slightly higher retirement age - JAL is 62, I think. For corporate jobs, such as sightseeing flights, etc., the age limit is up to the company. In the US at least, as long as you can pass your FAA medical exam (every 6 months for 1st class, needed for ATPs; every year for second class, needed for CFIs and commercial pilots; every two or three years, depending on whether you're under 40 for third class, needed for private pilots not flying passengers for hire).

[Shermy]

"Il velivolo, proveniente da Locarno, aveva a bordo solo il pilota, Mino Fasulo, di 75 anni "

From RAI. Could be wrong on the alleged pilot's age, though.

[Cboldt]

About 2200 lire to the dollar, so you're safe.

[RCW2001]

Would not some 'panties need changing' if UBL references todays accident? LOL!!!

[who knows what evil?]

Hmmm...that link is certainly VERY interesting.

[Utopia]

heart attack also a possibility. 75 year old under much stress.

Straight and level! Straight and level! Don't forget the plane crashed straight and level -- which is VERY hard to do if you are dead. Autopilots in these class of airplanes are not that good. Its also hard to fly straight and level if one engine is out.)

If it was a twin Aero Commmander, the width of the hole in the building looks about right. (They have a BIG wingsspan - over 49 feet. Different models have longer wingspans. Few have shorter ones. There are turbine versions of Aero Commander which have a longer wingspan.

Again. --- big wingspan - missing an engine -- and he flew straight and level and its an accident? ? Most other pilots I know don't fly straight and level when there's feeling good.

Think Straight and Level -- How did he do that?

Here's a link to Aero Commander

If he hit a building at a 45 degree bank, I'd feel more comfortable about the accident theory. If the building were a mirrored glass building, I'd feel more comfortable about it being an accident.

[Tennessee_Bob]

LOL!

Actually, they fly nice, straight, low and loud. Had the honor of taking a tour of one when it flew into Las Vegas on a world tour. We were sent out from Nellis in uniform and were treated real nice by the aircrew and their handlers. We were invited to sit at the end of runway with the media as it took off. He ate up the entire runway, getting off the ground maybe 300 feet in front of us and the assembled press corps. They were astounded - "Why didn't you guys hit the ground?" (we had just stood there watching, they all hit the deck as it came over low enough to count rivets). Tried to explain that if it hadn't gotten off the ground, it wouldn't have mattered if we'd ducked or not.

[DJ88]

Hey...this is JUST A THEORY...but what if this was a sick ploy to get the WORLD MEDIA'S ATTENTION to think it was a terrorist attack, so then immediately afterwards they would be glued to their TV sets to watch the sequel to "Sicko=Part II"??? A little off, I admit...but...

[alisasny]

I am thinking the defeat of the British in Lexington and Concord.....in 1776!!!

I also think the Warsaw ghetto uprising started on April 19 in 1943? or 42?

[r9etb]

Spiegel article confirms there are witness reports of several explosions in the building:

Not implausible: start off with a lot of fuel igniting in an enclosed space. If there's more than one tanks (e.g., a center tank and one in each wing), then other tanks could explode separately.