New York City. No indications that it was a terrorist attack.
Cell phone service in the area is not working.

News channels live now.

Yep, they say it was a small airplane. Not being tracked by Norad or FAA

Hopefully it was just a accident....

I've heard that it was a traffic helicopter. That's just rumor at this point though.

Let's hope it's indeed an unfortunate accident. Tragic none the less. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Wow, really freaky. I used to work literally across the street from that building on E 72nd near York Ave. It's a big apartment building, but hopefully most people were away at work during the crash.

Small consolation, but at least Cornell Medical Center is a designated burn center or used to be, and it is literally right there next to the crash site.

Only 2 burn centers in the city: Cornell and Staten Islan Univ Hosp... ANyway... We got assigned to it since orgignally nobody knew how big it was and potential was high. Now 3 hours later there is still high potential of injury to rescue crews and minor to civilians. 2 DOAs, 1 Serious injury and about 10 minor injuries (FIRE/EMS) txped to Cornell. We got cancelled half way in when they discovered it was small. It was a busy day since there was a 5 alarm fire in the Bronx and those units were tied up there so Central was sending units (like mine) from Brooklyn.

I checked the weather in the area at the time of the accident. It was marginal weather, especially for a newly licensed pilot, flying a fast sophisticated aircraft.

Chances are this will be another accident attributed to pilot error -- flying into adverse weather (flying beyond his current training and proficiency)

Just sad -- and for no good reason.

The other person killed was his flight instructor, who hadn't even filed a flight plan. Maybe NYC isn't the best place to learn to fly, but why were they wandering around skyscrapers?

The weather wasn't perfect, but he wasn't flying in a fog bank, either. "Tell me again where the big buildings are..."

This was a single-engine, 4-seater plane, not a jet. Who the h*** was flying it, a flight attendant???

We shall have to see if this becomes a Darwin Award nominee.

Sue

They say the pilot was a New York Yankees pitcher named Cory Lidle. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

scuttlebut is that they realized they were IN restricted airspace, tried to make a quick turn around, stalled, and went in. That part of the city (north east river) is highly restricted, as you are basically IN the Laguardia airport airspace