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Cue in Mass Hysteria mode (Small plane crash in NYC building)...

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NEW YORK - A small plane crashed into a high-rise on the Upper East Side, setting off a fire and startling New Yorkers, police said.
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Fire Department spokeswoman Emily Rahimi said an aircraft struck struck the 20th floor of a building on East 72nd Street. Witnesses said the crash caused a loud noise, and burning and falling debris was seen. Flames were seen shooting out of the windows. Video from the scene showed at least three apartments in the high rise fully engulfed in flames.

There was no immediate word on any deaths or injuries.

It was not immediately known if it was a terrorist act.

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They really needed to phrase that last line THAT way, didn't they?

Now, cue in the mass hysteria for what there's no reason - so far - to assume wasn't an accident.

Even if it wasn't, unless cesna starts falling from the sky all across the eastern US, this is at most an isolated "lone gunman".
 
This looks more like a lone gunman if anything at all. (Though they say weather DIDN'T play a role as visabilities are at least 1800 feet.)

It reminds me of another small plane crash in Florida shortly after 9/11.

Still, it's the middle of the day and very few people would in that building, especially that part of the building. So if they wanted to kill people, they screwed up big time.
 
More or less my thought. IF not an accident - a VERY big *if* right there - then this is most likely a lone nutjob, and there is simply no way in hell to keep such nutjobs from carrying out that sort of small scale attack.

It's just a risk you have to deal with, like being shot in a bank robbery or that sort of things.
 
They're saying everything points to an accident. Shit happens as they say. At lease there isn't word of many deaths or significant damage.

Still, it lets N.Y.F.D. earn their pay and the new companies can stretch their legs.
 
I would doubt they're stupid enough to panic about something this trivial, compared to most other incidents.
 
I had a feeling every Place Crash into a building would immediately be blown to a Terrorist Attempt...
 
The plane was registered and piloted by a pitcher for the Yankees.
 
Something like this happened in Florida a few years back and that didn't lead
to any terrorist suspects. Besides, using a Cesna to knock over a building
isn't practical unless it carried some extra explosives on board. The guy who
crashed was probably just a cocky pilot and had a really bad accident.
 
You guys don't remember the passenger plane full of people that crashed in Queens about a month after 9/11? If THAT didn't send New Yorkers into a panic, NOTHING short of another 9/11-scale event will.
 
It sent the rest of the States in a panic, that's the whole point :p

I'm not sure NYC would fall into real mass hysteria for anything short of armageddon. Even 9-11 wasn't quite that - lots of vengefulness, but the paranoia and hysteria was more, well, everywhere else in the States but NYC.
 
GrnMarvl13 said:
You guys don't remember the passenger plane full of people that crashed in Queens about a month after 9/11? If THAT didn't send New Yorkers into a panic, NOTHING short of another 9/11-scale event will.
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Ah yes, I remember that one. If I recall correctly, about 3-5 homes were
collapsed because of that crash. I think the only reason there was no panic
then was because that plane had already been on a decent and crashed
over homes rather than a massive occupied structure.

Logically, it was concidered an accident so no mass chaos.
 
Reuters article

Some people are speculating that it may have been suicide. The Yankees recently lost out on a playoff spot, and Lidle was pitching in that losing game.
 
Note the words some people and speculating.
 
Hmm, I just heard on the news in the other room that witnesses saw the plane flying erratically before it crashed, so it was probably mechanical failure.
 
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