Plane Crashes into NYC Building

You are thinking the same thing. An attack? Apparently not but NORAD has scrambled jets in response. From reports on the radio it appears to be a 4 seater fixed wing plane.

NEW YORK — A small aircraft crashed into a high-rise building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side Wednesday, igniting a raging fire, killing at least two and trapping people on the floors above the point of impact.

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

The Federal Aviation Administration said that the small aircraft was fixed wing, but earlier reports indicated that it may have been a small helicopter.

FBI spokeswoman Christine Monaco said there was no indication the crash was a terrorist attack but that officials “have been sent to the scene as a routine.”

I agree with Outside the Beltway… it is probably no more than an accident as the plane isn’t much of a threat. But 9/11 makes us second guess everything.

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