Small aircraft crashes into Federal Reserve Bank building in Miami...

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[SamAdams76]

The proverbial "nothing follows." Just got put up in red on the Drudge site. Please delete this thread if posted elsewhere or if this amounts to nothing.

[Marie Antoinette]

BTW "Experimental" doesn't necessarily mean some wierd, new design or something. If you make a modification, like, say, change the size of the fuel tank on an ultralight from 5 gallons to 11, it becomes experimental and you become a test pilot.

[CAPPSMADNESS]

Why do it when the building is empty?

If it's a terrorist, beccause he rode the short camel to madrassas school?

That has got to be one of the funniest, smart-aleck answers that I have seen in quite a while! LOL!

[GovernmentShrinker]

You'd think. But then experimental things don't always work exactly how they're meant to.

[Saturnalia]

Again?

[sam_paine]

If it's a terrorist, beccause he rode the short camel to madrassas school?

GUFFAW!

[Sam Cree]

A PBY? That's cool. Maybe from Week's Air Museum at Tamiami Airport, in Kendall?

[FourPeas]

From the website of The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA):

"All Amateur-Built/Homebuilt airplanes must be registered with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These airplanes must be inspected by an FAA Inspector or a Designated Inspector before an Airworthiness Certificate can be issued. This is a fairly rigorous process. The builder(s) must provide logs of when, where and how construction took place, along with supporting documents and photographs. If the aircraft passes this inspection, a pilot must fly between 25-40 hours of test flights in specific non-populated areas to make sure all components are operating properly. Only after that test time is flown may passengers be flown in the aircraft.

"In addition, an amateur-built airplane is subject to major condition inspections every 12 months, the same as small production aircraft."

found at: http://www.eaa.org/education/homebuilt_faq.html .

[Hipixs]

The tail section of what authorities described as a small single-engine plane, possibly an experimental aircraft, lays outside the Federal Reserve (news - web sites) Building in Miami, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002. The plane approached the one-story building from the north and struck the front of the building killing the pilot. More than 100 people attending a holiday season party were forced to evacuate the building authorities said. It was too early to tell if the crash was deliberate, according to Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue spokesman Louie Fernandez. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

[sam_paine]

Your screen name is appropriate to your silly posts.

If I Riled Conservababe?

[prophetic]

I smell a distraction here guys....

[EternalHope]

It went down in daylight, several hours ago. It hit a potentially high value target, but it was too small to do much damage.

Most likely just another general aviation crash, but why hit a building dead on, in broad daylight?

So let's have some details:
1. Did the plane have a radio, and did the pilot use it?
2. Any indications of mechanical trouble?
3. Is there enough left to identify the plane? If so, who was the owner?
4. Who was the pilot?

[Tennessee_Bob]

Don't know if the image will come up or not - the star marks the bank's location - look in the lower right hand corner - it's not a race track

:)

[jlogajan]

Thanks.

[BurbankKarl]

Those magificent Saudis, and their flying machines....

[bootless]

Aren't there flight restrictions on experimentals -- like you can't fly them over densely populated areas (like cities and downtowns, etc.)

Nope - what fourpeas said. Some of the experimentals are marvelous machines that have me in awe. If I were a floatplane pilot, I'd build me a Murphy SuperRebel. If I wanted a pocket rocket, I'd build a 300+hp Glasair (not the Lancair, though, the straight nose strut looks funny).

[browardchad]

Is there enough left to identify the plane? If so, who was the owner?

WSVN Miami reported that the plane was burned so badly that they can't even read its number. Now I guess it's a matter of trying to figure out where it took off from, or if the pilot has been or will be reported missing...

[Frank_2001]

That was the plane, the '97 crash was not much more than 2 miles I think from the bank, they mentioned on the news that tonight's incident involved an "experimental" plane, it would be highly unusual to have such a small plane landing at a major airport...there may be a Religion of Peace angle in this yet...we'll see....