SMALL PLANE CRASHES INTO BUILDING ON NYC'SUPPER EAST SIDE...

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Fighter aircraft are being put in the air over several U.S. cities as a precautionary measure, NORAD tells CNN.

foxnews.com update:

Local news reports quoted New York Fire Department officials as saying two people were confirmed dead. The FDNY confirmed FOX News that there are people trapped inside the building on floors above where the fire is located.

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terrible...man...in manhattan

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White House and FBI are reporting its an accident

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Update on cbs tv ... this plane left Teterboro (in NJ) this afternoon and was possible a sightseeing flight.

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White House and FBI are reporting its an accident

Surprised they don't say Iran did it.

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Apparently, the Yankees did it!

CNN say plane registered to Cory Lidle

CNN also say he was pilot of the plane

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And that he has had his pilots license for under a year now.

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Apparently, the Yankees did it!

CNN say plane registered to Cory Lidle

CNN also say he was pilot of the plane

damn...why was he flying in that area? is it not restricted?

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On Sunday, the day after the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs, Lidle cleaned out his locker at Yankee Stadium and talked about his interest in flying.

He explained to reporters the process of getting a pilot's license and said he intended to fly back to California in several days and planned to make a few stops. Lidle discussed the plane crash of John F. Kennedy Jr. and how he had read the accident report on the National Transportation Safety Board Web site.

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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.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2621860

goddamnit, 1010wins.com changed the image!!

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On Sunday, the day after the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs, Lidle cleaned out his locker at Yankee Stadium and talked about his interest in flying.

He explained to reporters the process of getting a pilot's license and said he intended to fly back to California in several days and planned to make a few stops. Lidle discussed the plane crash of John F. Kennedy Jr. and how he had read the accident report on the National Transportation Safety Board Web site.

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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.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2621860

goddamnit, 1010wins.com changed the image!!

Possible suicide?

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On Sunday, the day after the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs, Lidle cleaned out his locker at Yankee Stadium and talked about his interest in flying.

He explained to reporters the process of getting a pilot's license and said he intended to fly back to California in several days and planned to make a few stops. Lidle discussed the plane crash of John F. Kennedy Jr. and how he had read the accident report on the National Transportation Safety Board Web site.

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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.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2621860

goddamnit, 1010wins.com changed the image!!

Possible suicide?

I don't think so. Witness say that the plane looked like it was trying to avoid the building when it crashed, i.e. it didn't just make a bee-line for it.

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Could be just his inexperience and maybe he wasn't paying attention until it was too late...

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Drudge reporting:

'NO REASON TO BELIEVE EVENT IS TERRORISM'

I had to laugh at that. These days the news agencies automatically have to throw terrorism in there anyway - regardless of whether or not its a blatant accident.

Hard to imagine terrorists planning (from afar) to invest millions of dollars and several years planning simply to blow up Joe Schmoe in his apartment

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Drudge reporting:

'NO REASON TO BELIEVE EVENT IS TERRORISM'

I had to laugh at that. These days the news agencies automatically have to throw terrorism in there anyway - regardless of whether or not its a blatant accident.

Hard to imagine terrorists planning (from afar) to invest millions of dollars and several years planning simply to blow up Joe Schmoe in his apartment

Well... I think a lot of people in NYC who actually witnessed today's crash kind of automatically feared it might be a 9/11-repeat and they ran for the hills asap, even though, logically speaking, it doesn't make sense that terrorists would invest all that money and time into planning something not-all-that-destructive. Later on, when it was clearer that it was an accident, people started gathering around and gawking at watching the fire, police, etc. I was watching CBS and the anchorwoman was getting really upset at what she saw because it reminded her of 9/11. I think the news announced that, in part, to keep people in the area calm, or at least that's how I took it.