Small aircraft crash in Beijing kills one person, injures 13, local govt says
Authorities said the single-engine aircraft struck the 108-story CITIC Tower and caused visible damage as investigators examined the rare crash.
- On Friday, a small aircraft crashed into the CITIC Tower in Beijing, killing the pilot and injuring 13 people, Chinese Authorities confirmed.
- At 5:55 p.m., a two-seat light sport aircraft collided with a high-rise building in the Chaoyang District, a vibrant business area, Authorities reported.
- Witnesses reported debris at the base of the 1,732-foot CITIC, with AFP journalists observing a hole in the windows of one of the building's upper floors.
- Police and ambulances swarmed the scene, where Video showed fire trucks blasting water at small flames and scattered wreckage beside the 108-story skyscraper.
- Authorities are "conducting further investigation into the incident" amid strict airspace restrictions in Beijing, which are imposed for public security reasons.
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The pilot whose sport jet crashed into Beijing's tallest building on Friday has died, injuring 13 people. Chinese authorities said the two-seater sport jet crashed into a tower block on Friday afternoon. The brief statement did not name the building, identify the pilot or whether there were any injuries in or near the building. According to global flight tracking service Flightradar24, the plane crashed into Beijing's tallest skyscraper, the 528…
Beijing local authorities confirmed this Saturday that the plane pilot who crashed Friday into a skyscraper in the Chinese capital died and 13 others were injured.
The pilot, alone on board, was killed after striking the tallest building in the Chinese capital. An investigation into the circumstances of the incident is under way.
In Beijing, a small aircraft flew into the city's tallest building. Almost a day the authorities remained silent about the incident, now they confirmed the pilot's death. Images of the crash on the Internet were deleted.
They are images that remind us of 9/11 – but they don't tell us about it in China. How a small plane could fly into the city's tallest skyscraper remains unexplained, and the government does a lot to keep it that way.
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