China hushes up a plane crash in heart of its capital
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On Friday afternoon a small plane appeared to evade some of the world’s strictest aviation controls and slam into the tallest skyscraper in Beijing, the 109-story CITIC Tower that dominates the city’s skyline and looks over a busy downtown district home to banks and embassies,
BEIJING, June 27 (Reuters) - A light aircraft crash into Beijing's tallest building on Friday killed the pilot and injured 13 people who were not on board, the local government said following the unusual accident for the Chinese capital,
Videos, photographs and memes related to the building have been removed from Chinese social media, while the BBC reported that light aircraft operations were suspended.
