A plane just hit a skyscraper in Beijing, but don't ask about it
In a city where you can't even fly a drone, a light aircraft somehow managed to park itself into one of Beijing's tallest towers.
So, a plane crashed into one of the tallest buildings in Beijing, and the whole thing is already being memory-holed. Local authorities confirmed the pilot didn't make it, and 13 people on the ground were injured, but that’s about all you’re getting from official channels. The weirdest part? The entire internet in China was scrubbed of all videos and photos of the crash within hours.
This isn't a random incident in some open field. Beijing has some of the tightest, most paranoid airspace controls on the planet. Even hobbyist drones get swatted down. Yet, this pilot managed to veer off course from a small airport and slam into a skyscraper near the East Third Ring Road. State media, whose own office is basically across the street, is acting like it’s a perfectly normal Friday.
Nothing screams transparency quite like pretending a plane crash in the middle of a massive city never happened.
Source: ABC News
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