PLane Crashes Into Skyscraper in Milan....

Seems like a genuine accident. Small two seater Piper plane, circling for a while after sending an SOS call detailing a problem with the undercarriage, lost control and hit the building. Not terrorism.

thank god.

It's kind of interesting watching consensus emerge amongst the media in this kind of event. All news sources (BBC, AP, etc) now list the plane as having taken off from Locarno in Switzerland. CNN, though, asserts it took off from Sofia, Bulgaria. Let's see how long it takes them to correct this.

OK, they changed it to Locarno. About 15 minutes after the other sites.

Would this have been a bigger news story or a smaller news story if the WTC/Pentagon attack hadn't occurred?

even if its not terrorist related, the general consensus in my office is "Well at least its not the US again". The news here kind of brushed it off as nothing "and now back to the weather".

because i'm a rebel, i'm going to maintain it took off from sofia. this locarna shit is another cover up by those liberal media bastardacoj

yeah an accident you should have seen the delirious comments on berlusconi's televisions special news.... what a shame ...I gotta get out of here....

Francesco: what was the Berlusconi media saying?

I thought Italians were stylish; crashing planes into skyscrapers is so last year...

nathan:mmmhhhhh momus: correlations have been suddenly made between new york terrorism acts and milan plane accident even in an iconic level. of course it would be too hard to replicate the hysteric soap opera tones. news should have a less populist melodramatic approach towards stuff like this... expecially if nothing have been proved yet. berlusconi not only controls directly three private channels but, being the leader of the winning coalition, has power on the three national tv's last news: mr berlusconi is about to fire from national tv's two journos and one comedian (santoro,biagi-luttazzi) who dared to go against the grain. they used their presence on tv in a not proper way. would you belive this is really happening. it looks like there's an historical destiny for this nation to worship the winners, no matter how they reached the top. would we use in this case the sociological formula "amoral familism"..... worrying.....