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[ironymaiden]

a small plane crashed into Belaire Condos at E 72nd and York in NYC about half an hour ago. looks like an accident.

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[pedantka.livejournal.com]

Holy carp. Glad my sister moved 10 blocks up.

[mort-q.livejournal.com]

That must be a scary way to die... plane out of control, not knowing whether you'll be shot down by your own government or die in the crash.

[sinthrex.livejournal.com]

How so?

They seem remarkably similar to me. Both involve fatal explosions.

[ironymaiden]

while i generally welcome criticism of the Feds, i posted the info because i know several people who read this have friends, family, and co-workers in New York who could have been near or at the crash site.

to be pedantic, the plane was small enough to be under visual flight rules and no one was tracking them.

[mort-q.livejournal.com]

I wasn't being critical of the Feds... I'd have no qualms about shooting down aircraft that I thought endangered public safety. I really was commenting about that moment of clarify one seems to have in an emergency when you think about just how screwed you are and all the possible outcomes... if I was a pilot I'd worry about flying an airplane too close to downtown towers or what-have-you at the best of times... even more so if I had lost control of my aircraft and had to decide where-to-crash, and other scary shit.

moment of clarity

[ironymaiden]

i find that it's in those moments when i think of the other things. did i leave the oven on? wish my underwear was clean...

[boldfeather.livejournal.com]

Ah to be Canadian - we know that it would be the crash that would kill us... by the time anything is deployed in our parts, we'd be smoldering lumps of bbq'd beef.