Plane into building in Manhattan

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Multi-engine small plane INTO BUILDING IN MANHATTAN E. 72nd and York

about 30 stories highrise.

CNN

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As of 1500hrs.....

- 524 E. 72nd St. - Multi-Story brick OMD (20-30 floors), heavy fire on upper floors. FDNY operating w/multiple alarms. Multiple NYPD*ESU & Aviation units also operating.

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[Guest]

Here we go agian Heavy Fire sorta in the upper middle of the building. Unknown if its a small plane or a helecopter. I really hope its just an accident and not terrorist related.

FDNY guys stay safe.

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Im still watching. It looks Like the FDNY got water on the fire because I saw water shootin out the windows and alot of grey smoke. The only thing im worried about it the fire is right on top of them on the floor above and possibly below.

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[Monty 35]

Watching TV now, FDNY have blackened the fire in the lower 2 windows (fire was showing from two windows on two floors - maybe 10 stories up or so). You can see streams out the lower appartment.

Looks like FDNY are all over it! Excellent job - as usual.

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Fire looks like its basically contained to 4 rooms now, and water is being shot out of the lower floors.

Stay safe guys

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Two dead in UES aircraft crash

Homeland Security: Initial reports indicate a terrible accident

Eyewitness News

(Upper East Side - WABC, October 11, 2006) -

Police have confirmed two deaths in what the FAA is calling a small fixed-wing aircraft crash into an Upper East Side building Wednesday afternoon.

An FBI spokesperson, along with the Homeland Security Department, said there was no evidence of a terrorist attack.

Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said "The initial indication is that there is a terrible accident." Nonetheless, the Pentagon says they scrambled fighter jets over U.S. cities as a precaution.

Several windows of an apartment were blown out in an apartment building at the Belaire building on 524 East 72nd Street, between York and East End Avenue. The crash triggered a loud bang sending glass and debris around the neighborhood.

Mayor Bloomberg went to the site, where parts of the fuselage were reportedly falling to the ground.

The FAA has now established a temporary flight restriction, which means no aircraft may fly within one mile radius around or fifteen hundred above the accident scene.

Right now, local airports are not affected by the crash.

Eyewitness News sports reporter Marvell Scott was near the scene when the crash happened and said he saw six apartments on fire and then saw debris fall onto the ground.

Another eyewitness, Sandy Teller, added: "It's a mob scene with police and helicopters circling. ... There's a dozen ambulances and lots of firemen waiting on 72nd, on the corner. There's lots of stretchers ready, gurneys. And lots of emergency people waiting."

The Belaire is a high rise building near the Hospital for Special Surgery. A fire was reported on the 41st floor after the crash. FDNY crews are on the scene working to put the blaze out.

The New York City Red Cross said it is mobilizing and heading to the scene.

The NTSB is also heading to the scene to investigate what happened on the Upper East Side.

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CNN just said NORAD is sending fighter jets out over major cities, but are still listing it as an accident.

[CAM502 6]

1530- 4th Alarm....P/W/H on the 4th.

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It was a Fixed wing plane according to the FAA and has been comfirmed not a helicopter ----FBI has responded and Homelamd security is monitoring.

[Guest psd8109]

News is now saying 1 confirmed death. Fires were on the 41st & 42nd floors.

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Around the corner from my wife's old appartment.

Just spoke with one of my friends who is a Nurse at NY Pres. Cornell... She lives in the Helmsley Building directly next door (hospital housing) and was sleeping off the night shift when the smoke woke her up.

Says that FDNY worked wicked fast.

This is 39 Engine and 16 Truck's first due. They have Highrise #2 quartered with them on 67th Street b/t 3rd and Lex...

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i waching CNN now they said preson that call it in said that the plane leveled out whit the bilding and just crased right in to it.

[Guest MRK303]

Report of 2 people dead now

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On eyewitness news it said the fire is put out and two people died in the fire.

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CBS news is reproting that eyewitness may have seen someone jump from the plan and go into the river???

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FBI reporting that this was not an act of terriorism

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FBI reporting that this was not an act of terriorism

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Thank God, We have enough going on as it is........

Also, FDNY did a great job knocking that one down as always. Train for the worst.

"Work Together, Win Together" -EMTBravo

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Thank God, We have enough going on as it is........

Also, FDNY did a great job knocking that one down as always. Train for the worst.

"Work Together, Win Together" -EMTBravo

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plane is registered to nyy pitcher corey lidle

[Guest]

NBC reporting now 4 people dead, 2 in the plane and 2 on the ground

Edited October 11, 2006 by nutty1

[Guest]

reported Cory Lidle's plane

the pitcher for the yankees

[rpbravest29fd 3]

AP is saying that a Yankees player was on the airplane....well that rules out terrorism.

Sad day in the history of that Yankees

[Guest]

BREAKING NEWS Alert

Yankees' Lidle Dies In Plane Crash

New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was the pilot of a small airplane that crashed into a 50-story condominium in Manhattan, and Lidle is one of two confirmed dead.

from ESPN

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From ESPN.com:

Lidle dies as plane crashes into Manhattan high-rise

NEW YORK -- A small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into a 50-story condominium tower Wednesday on Manhattan's Upper East Side, killing at least four people and raining flaming debris on sidewalks, authorities said.

Federal Aviation Administration records showed the single-engine plane was registered to Lidle, and FBI reports show that Lidle's passport was found at the scene. The FBI believed Lidle was the only person aboard the plane and the other three deaths occurred inside the building.

The twin-engine plane came through a hazy, cloudy sky and hit the 20th floor of The Belaire -- a red-brick tower overlooking the East River, about five miles from the World Trade Center -- with a loud bang, touching off a raging fire that cast a pillar of black smoke over the city and sent flames shooting from four windows on two adjoining floors.

Large crowds gathered in the street in the largely wealthy New York neighborhood, with many people in tears and some trying to reach loved ones by cell phone.

"I was worried the building would explode, so I got out of there fast," said Lori Claymont, who fled an adjoining building in sweatpants.

Young May Cha, a 23-year-old Cornell University medical student, said she was walking back from the grocery store down 72nd Street when she saw an object out of the corner of her eye.

"I just saw something come across the sky and crash into that building," she said. Cha said there appeared to be smoke coming from behind the aircraft, and "it looked like it was flying erraticaly for the short time that I saw it."

"The explosion was very small. I was not threatened for my life," she added.

Richard Drutman, a professional photographer who lives on the 11th floor, said he was talking on the telephone when he felt the building shake.

"There was a huge explosion. I looked out my window and saw what appeared to be pieces of wings, on fire, falling from the sky," Drutman said. He and his girlfriend quickly evacuated the building.

The plane left New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, just across the Hudson River from the city, at 2:30 p.m., about 15 minutes before the crash, according to officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport. But they said they did not where the aircraft was headed.

FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said the plane was apparently not in contact with air traffic controllers; pilots flying small planes by sight are not required to be in contact.

The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to investigate.

Former NTSB director Jim Hall said in a telephone interview he doesn't understand how a plane could get so close to a New York City building after Sept. 11.

"We're under a high alert and you would assume that if something like this happened, people would have known about it before it occurred, not after," Hall said.

Mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark, daughter of author Mary Higgins Clark, lives on the 38th floor and was coming home in a cab when she saw the smoke.

"Thank goodness I wasn't at my apartment writing at the time," she said. She described the building's residents as a mix of actors, doctors, lawyers, writers and people with second homes.

Sgt. Claudette Hutchinson, a spokeswoman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., said fighter jets "are airborne over numerous U.S. cities and while every indication is that this is an accident, we see this as a prudent measure at this time."

However, all three New York City-area airports continued to operate normally, FAA spokesman Jim Peters said. In Washington, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said neither President Bush nor Vice President Dick Cheney was moved to secure locations.

"All indications are that is an unfortunate accident," said Yolanda Clark, a spokeswoman for Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration. She said there was "no specific or credible intelligence suggesting an imminent threat to the homeland, at this time."

The crash struck fear in a city devastated by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Sirens echoed across the neighborhood as about 170 firefighters rushed in along with emergency workers and ambulances. Broken glass and debris were strewn around the neighborhood.

"There's a sense of helplessness," said Sandy Teller, watching from his apartment a block away. "Cots and gurneys, waiting. It's a mess."

The tower was built in the late 1980s and is situated near Sotheby's auction house. It has 183 apartments, many of which sell for more than $1 million.

Several lower floors are occupied by doctors and administrative offices, as well as guest facilities for family members of patients at the Hospital for Special Surgery, hospital spokeswoman Phyllis Fisher said.

No patients were in the high-rise building and operations at the hospital a block away were not affected, Fisher said.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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