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Aircraft crashes in New York
A small aircraft has crashed into a high-rise residential building at 72nd Street and York in Manhattan, police said. Police are en route to the site, said to be at 525 E. 72nd Street. Flames and smoke could be seen pouring from the high rise apartment as fire engines raced to the scene.
bron: www.cnn.com

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Ah godverdomme nee he

Geregistreerd op: 04 Jan 2005 Berichten: 320

NEW YORK (AP) -- Police say an aircraft has crashed into a building on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 72nd Street and York Avenue. It is near Rockefeller Center.

There was no word on casualties.

Video from the scene shows at least three apartments in the high rise fully engulfed in flames.

It's unclear if it was a small plane or a helicopter.

Geregistreerd op: 26 Sep 2006 Berichten: 2741

Hmm dikke kans dat het een ongeluk is dus

Gebeurt wel vaker dat een amateurpiloot gewoon de fout ingaat.

Geregistreerd op: 04 Jan 2005 Berichten: 320

ik denk idd dat het dat is, als je de beelden op cnn ziet (tv) dan valt het allemaal wel mee, supererg, maar geen terroristen imo

Buiten jou maakt niemand er terroristen van, een terrorist gaat niet ergens in een gebouwpje waar niemand om geeft; vliegen met een minivliegtuigje. Als er morgen een A380 het Empire State Building raakt, dan is het hogere kans op terroristen.

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ik ook niet?
ik zeg alleen dat ik denk dat het geen terroristen zijn.

Geregistreerd op: 31 Aug 2006 Berichten: 1712

Iemand die op een opvallende manier zelfmoord wou plegen, lijkt me.

Geregistreerd op: 17 Dec 2005 Berichten: 2238

Doet me denken aan die Duitser die geïnspireerd was door Bin Laden en in het weekend zelfmoord pleegde op een (leeg) kantoorgebouw. Remember?

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Ongelukje, wordt wel breed uitgemeten (logisch)

Geregistreerd op: 25 Sep 2006 Berichten: 646

1 vd 2 doden zou een (erg) bekende honkballer zijn?

Geregistreerd op: 20 Okt 2003 Berichten: 1609

Cory Lidle, zn paspoort is daar ook al gevonden.

Geregistreerd op: 04 Jan 2005 Berichten: 320

NEW YORK (AP) -- Even in a place accustomed to the murmur of terror alerts -- a city that has accepted its subways and skyscrapers as targets, where you can almost block out roaring jets and blaring sirens these days -- the news sent adrenaline racing.

For harrowing minutes at mid-afternoon Wednesday, before the exact location and scope of what happened became clear, people turned to televisions or read text messages from friends and knew only this:

A plane crashed into a building. (Watch New Yorkers set on edge by crash -- 1:56 )

And then came an emotion, hard to define and distinct to the five years since September 11, and probably more common here than anywhere else. You could call it relief, except relief is not usually laced with guilt.

It was a small plane or helicopter, nothing bigger. The most intense fire appeared on television to be visible through two windows, just two, in an Upper East Side high-rise. And later in the day, word that two people had been killed. Just two. (Full story)

Still, even after authorities ruled out terrorism and the crash emerged as, in the words of a Homeland Security Department spokesman, a "terrible accident," it was impossible not to think of September 11.

It was on the mind of Beata Jankowska, who works as a housekeeper on the 33rd floor of the very building that was hit, on East 72nd Street close to the East River in Manhattan.

"Everything reminds me of September 11," said Jankowska, who was preparing a dinner of chicken marsala when she heard an explosion, saw flames below her out the window and then raced down 33 flights of stairs to get out, taking nothing with her.

"I was very afraid," she said. "I remember September 11. I was watching that from the very first second."

You could look at a television and wonder whether what you were seeing was live or five years old: Gear-burdened firefighters trudging toward the scene. Crowds of people in a densely populated neighborhood, all looking up.

Public officials were quick to say there was no indication an attack had taken place, but they acknowledged the crash -- on another 11th -- had rattled the city's psyche.

"I understand that since September 11, when something like this happens, there's a high level of anxiety, and people reflect back to September 11," New York Gov. George Pataki said on CNN.

And even after it was clear the crash was an accident, "still you're thinking it could be something else and you don't feel comfortable taking the subways," said Catherine Schreckinger, who was running errands on 57th Street when her 13-year-old daughter called from school to say administrators were not letting the children leave because of the crash.

"People in New York are traumatized still. People are thinking of it always, every day. I think, 'What if? Who will be the person I'll share this horrible experience with?' People from other countries don't understand that. It wasn't one day. It was months and years," she said.

It's not that this city hasn't had its nerves jangled in the five years and one month since the attack on the World Trade Center.

There was the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in a New York City residential neighborhood, just two months after the September 11 attacks, deadlier by many times -- 265 killed -- than Wednesday's incident.

There was the blackout on a sweltering summer day in 2003 that sent New Yorkers streaming out of lower Manhattan -- but that was just a widespread power outage, and it is remembered today by many people here as an oddity, even fun.

There was the steady flow of terror alerts that followed the attacks, some unspecific and some all too detailed -- suggestions terrorists might have been eyeing banking centers, the subways.

And yet not since the trade center attack had New Yorkers heard those words: A plane crashed into a building.

In just another chilling reminder of what happened five years ago, when medics stood idly watching for victims who never came, Upper East Side medical centers sent ambulances to the scene on Wednesday, and could do nothing but wait.

"It looks like people are waiting," said Sandy Teller, who lives a block away and was speaking over the wail of sirens. "There's a sense of helplessness. Cots and gurneys, waiting. It's a mess."

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Ik denk niet dat we in de eerstkomende 30 jaar nog een aanslag van moslim-extremisten zullen zien in New York. De symbolische waarde van de WTC torens (economische wereldreus) is veel te groot in vergelijking met wat er daar nog aanwezig is.

Ik gok trouwens op een biologische aanslag (niveau vergiftiging drinkwater of populaire voeding) in Denemarken.

Hmmm... beetje lugubere weddenschap. Nevermind.

Anthrax in de metro naar het voorbeeld van de aanslagen in Japan is het volgende voor Amerika.

Geregistreerd op: 24 Sep 2006 Berichten: 2297

Het is allemaal een conspiracy!

Geregistreerd op: 31 Aug 2006 Berichten: 1712

Naar het schijnt waren de Yankees fans niet echt opgezet met het feit dat Cory Lidle in zijn vrije tijd met sportvliegtuigjes rondvloog. Cory stelde hen gerust en zei dat zijn vliegtuig uitgerust was met een reusachtig valscherm dat bij motorpech het vliegtuig al bij al veilig op de grond kon loodsen (zie wikipedia). Zijn laatste woorden waren dan ook:
"godver, wie heeft er hier gordijnen uit m'n parachute geknipt?"

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sorry, kon het niet laten

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