Officials are saying there is no reason to believe the incident is terrorism-related.
The location is being described as a residential building on New York's Upper East Side.
This image shows where the aircraft hit the building in New York.
AND THEY WERE RIGHT!!!
Small plane crashes into New York building
Updated Wed. Oct. 11 2006 3:27 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
A small plane has crashed into a building in Manhattan, say
emergency officials. However, earlier reports have said it
was a helicopter.
There is no information yet on deaths or injuries in the
incident, which occurred just before 3 p.m. EDT on
Wednesday.
Officials are saying there is no reason to believe the incident
is terrorism-related.
The location is being described as a residential building
on New York's Upper East Side. The 50-storey
building -- the Belaire, where many of the apartments
sell for more than US$1 million -- is close to the
East River.
The impact point appears to be the 20th floor.
Television images from CNN show smoke rising from a
building. Flames engulfed four apartments at one point,
but firefighters successfully fought them.
No helicopter wreckage was visible.
However, there are burn marks on the building below
where the fires are burning.
"It looks as if the aircraft didn't go into the building, it
fell down," Sarah Steiner, who lives about a block
from the building that was hit, told CNN.
The streets below are packed with emergency vehicles.
While it's a cloudy day in New York, weather reports
indicate there is about 16 kilometres of visibility
before the cloud deck.
More to come ...
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