# Another Attack? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338 "2002-04-18T16:14:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/1 "2002-04-18T16:14:59Z")
A plane has just hit a skyscraper in Milan, Italy. Link when I have it. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/2 "2002-04-18T16:20:57Z")
From CNN, 12:20 P.M. Eastern time: MILAN, Italy (CNN) – A small plane has hit a skyscraper in central Milan, setting the top floors of the 30-story building on fire, an Italian journalist told CNN. The crash by the Piper tourist plane into the 26th floor occurred at 5:50 p.m. (1450 GMT) on Thursday, said journalist Desideria Cavina. The building houses government offices and is next to the city’s central train station. Several stories of the building were engulfed in fire, she said. Police were trying to keep people away, and many ambulances were on the scene. There is no word yet on casualties. ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/3 "2002-04-18T16:29:51Z")
Oh my god… ☹ The worst part is, no one here at work seems to care. At all. I don’t know if that means we’re all jaded, or that it doesn’t matter because it’s happening somewhere other than here. How terrible. How absolutely awful. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/4 "2002-04-18T16:31:54Z")
[http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm\_570209.html?menu=news.latestheadlines](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_570209.html?menu=news.latestheadlines) > [@](#): > > RAI state TV said the plane had apparently radioed an SOS because of engine trouble. CNN reports that the plane was on its way from Sofia to Rome. I’m worried ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/5 "2002-04-18T16:32:00Z")
CNN said that the pilot called in an SOS, so it looks like it may be an accident. God, I hope it is. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/6 "2002-04-18T16:33:30Z")
Maybe its another kid who took to much acne medicine. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/7 "2002-04-18T16:34:58Z")
too\* In any case I hope nobody was hurt. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/8 "2002-04-18T16:38:14Z")
it was a Piper plane. Left a big hole… [http://www.repubblica.it/images/prima/pirellone2.jpg](http://www.repubblica.it/images/prima/pirellone2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/9 "2002-04-18T16:42:13Z")
BBC news link: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid\_1937000/1937976.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1937000/1937976.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/10 "2002-04-18T16:43:59Z")
My apologies - there is another thread here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=110260](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=110260) ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/11 "2002-04-18T16:45:07Z")
Sorry, sorry, ignore that last post. It links to this thread. My computer is playing up. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/12 "2002-04-18T16:46:02Z")
A small piper plane would not leave that much damage. This was not a piper plane. ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/13 "2002-04-18T16:54:20Z")
I don’t buy the engine trouble thing. I just don’t. It’s too much of a coincidence that a small plane having engine trouble would just happen to hit one of the largest concrete buildings in the world, which also happens to be a government and financial center. Call me cynical, but I just don’t buy it. If there was an SOS it was to cover their own asses. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/14 "2002-04-18T16:54:25Z")
eh, it was a small piper plane according to every news source I can find. Apparently it had been circling around for a while looking for somewhere to land. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/15 "2002-04-18T16:55:48Z")
[http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm\_570229.html](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_570229.html) Anything larger would have taken the top off that building. ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/16 "2002-04-18T16:57:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*eh, it was a small piper plane according to every news source I can find. Apparently it had been circling around for a while looking for somewhere to land. \*\* Meh. If that’s the case I retract my earlier statement. I guess it is a coincidence. Just a really spooky one. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![JSA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@JSA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSA)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/17 "2002-04-18T17:02:00Z")
CNN is reporting that the plane was 50 miles into a 350 mile trip to Rome. Result = Nearly full fuel tanks ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/18 "2002-04-18T17:04:00Z")
The building hosts local government offices and the ANSA news agency. There is a close up picture in the Picture stories section on Ananova of the building, with 2 or 3 stories destroyed, but intact storied above and below. Dosent look like the plane was too big and gives creedence to the Piper plane reports. Apparently there was no one on board but the pilot. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/19 "2002-04-18T17:07:40Z")
There is massive damage and a big fire. This was NOT a small piper plane. It may have not been a jetliner. That stupid kid who crashed a piper into a building in florida pretty much bounced off it. There is a lot of damage here. maybe a corporate jet? It’s early, but it looks like terrorism to me. ---
**Author:** ![Beastal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Beastal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastal)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338/20 "2002-04-18T17:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > A small piper plane would not leave that much damage. This was not a piper plane. [Picture of a Piper plane](http://www.icce.rug.nl/frank/flying/unrestricted/pictures/anf.jpg) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-attack/104338.md?page=2)