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Small aircraft crashes into Federal Reserve Bank building in Miami...
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Posted on 12/05/2002 6:59:45 PM PST by 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.


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To: Calcetines
They are every bit as safe.

Well, clearly.

First, the aircraft in question may be experimental. I don't believe it's been verified yet. Second, obviously one downed aircraft does not make for a trend. How many production aircraft crash each year? Your reply is dumb.

121 posted on 12/05/2002 8:33:30 PM PST by FourPeas
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To: Sam Cree
Maybe from Week's Air Museum at Tamiami Airport, in Kendall?

It wasn't that one, it had the same kind of profile but looked newer and a little shorter wingspan.

122 posted on 12/05/2002 8:34:08 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: Conservababe; Diddle E. Squat
If I remember correctly Diddle is right.
123 posted on 12/05/2002 8:34:19 PM PST by BJClinton
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To: cmsgop
"Is MIA the closest Airpot in your opinion...?"

There's Oppa-Lokka (sp?) near also, where the planes tend to be smaller non commercial types.
125 posted on 12/05/2002 8:35:12 PM PST by APBaer
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To: Rome2000
Weird. I don't put anything past these people either.
126 posted on 12/05/2002 8:36:40 PM PST by Sam Cree
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To: EternalHope
It went down in daylight, several hours ago

It went down after dark.

Sunset is around 6:15 and this plane crashed around 8:30.

MIA is not general aviation, this guy wasn't flying VFR, and you would have to kamikazee in to hit the building, it's only one story tall.

It sure sounds suspicious to me.

127 posted on 12/05/2002 8:38:06 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: APBaer
Tamiami airport is the closest general aviation airport to the site.
128 posted on 12/05/2002 8:39:45 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: EternalHope
It was another wonderful religion of peace outing!
129 posted on 12/05/2002 8:39:50 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: APBaer
From AP:

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MIAMI (Dec. 5) - A small plane crashed into the Federal Reserve Bank Building on Thursday night, killing the pilot, authorities said. No one inside the building was injured.

''We have no information that it was an intentional crash,'' said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown in Washington. ''It appears to be an accident.''

More than 100 people were attending a holiday party in the one-story building when the aircraft slammed into the northeast side of the bank, exploded and burst into flames. The building also houses the Miami bureau of The Associated Press.

Based on communications between the pilot and air traffic controllers, Brown said the FAA believes the plane was coming from Marathon in the Florida Keys and traveling to New Smyrna Beach on Florida's central east coast.

Another FAA spokeswoman, Kathleen Bergen, called the plane a single-engine aircraft, likely a home-built experimental aircraft.

An FBI agent assigned to Miami International Airport was en route to the accident and the agency was keeping in close contact with investigators, said FBI Miami spokeswoman Judy Orihuela.

The building is about three miles west of the airport. Some windows were broken but there appeared to be no structural damage.

The bank building is just north of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees U.S. military activities in 32 nations and 12 dependencies in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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130 posted on 12/05/2002 8:40:10 PM PST by STARWISE
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To: sam_paine
It's Green Peace. Our money needs to be pink. Riding the short camel might be it though, since this building didn't hold money. Or did it?
131 posted on 12/05/2002 8:42:10 PM PST by MHGinTN
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To: Rome2000
Sunset is around 6:15 and this plane crashed around 8:30.

I misread the time, thought it went down at 5:45, not 8:45. Guess it's be dark even as far south as Miami by then.

132 posted on 12/05/2002 8:45:28 PM PST by EternalHope
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To: home educate
Plane was a very small plane similar to one John Denver died a few years ago. Plane could have landed in a cars parking lot.

Did I miss something? I don't see anywhere that the plane was identified as a Long-EZ (the craft Denver was flying), nor does the tail section look like one. Also, it's a misconception that a single engine plane can be easily landed in small spaces. In cities there are often many obstructions to making a safe landing: power lines, signs, street lights, cars, buildings and people. Putting a small plane down in a parking lot just isn't that easy.

134 posted on 12/05/2002 8:54:02 PM PST by FourPeas
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To: FourPeas
Putting a small plane down in a parking lot just isn't that easy.

In one piece, that is. A few years ago, someone on approach to the airport here in Hayward CA put their Piper down in the mall parking lot. Fortunately, it was before the mall opened, and there weren't too many cars in the lot. Fuel exhaustion, I think. He was about 3/4 of a mile, max from the approach end of the runway. Too bad he couldn't have st-t-t-t-t-r-r-r-e-e-t-t-c-h-ed the glide out. (BTW, what do you fly?)

135 posted on 12/05/2002 8:57:30 PM PST by bootless
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To: Rome2000
"MIA is not general aviation"

All commercial airports handle GA aircraft.

When I took my night flight to get my private licence I landed at LAX.

I probably was in and out of LAX well over 200 times in my Saratoga to clear customs with commercial cargo or to pick up or drop off passengers.
136 posted on 12/05/2002 9:07:57 PM PST by dalereed
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To: home educate
It's interesting that they were having a Christmas party in the building.

Kind of early in December to be having a Christmas party. Hmmmm....

137 posted on 12/05/2002 9:11:32 PM PST by Shermy
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