The law enforcement official said the plane had issued a distress call before the crash.
The FBI and the Homeland Security Department said there was no evidence it was a terrorist attack. "The initial indication is that there is a terrible accident," Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said. Nevertheless, fighter jets were sent aloft over U.S. cities as a precaution, the Pentagon said.
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My friend EL said the plane crashed at 72nd and York, which is three streets up from her apartment. Everyone is freaking out in New York. I just read elsewhere that terrorism is ruled out.
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One Death Confirmed After New York Airplane Crash
9:00 am, 12 Oct 2006
The New York Fire Department has confirmed at least one death after an airplane crashed into a high rise apartment building in New York.
Witnesses reported seeing a huge fireball after a fixed wing airplane came down steeply from the sky and crashed into the high rise...
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Plans for three new skyscrapers to sit alongside Freedom Tower on the site of the World Trade Center in New York have been unveiled by architects.
The towers will descend in height in a semicircle around the memorial to the victims of the 11 September attacks.
The designs complete plans for Ground Zero, where the showpiece Freedom Tower is already under construction.
But five years on, frustration is growing over the lack of actual rebuilding work, correspondents say.
British architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers have each...
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