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The world remains to be waiting for answers about why a plane slammed into Beijing’s tallest constructing.
The small aircraft crashed into Beijing’s famous CITIC Tower skyscraper on Friday, killing the one person on board and wounding 13 others.
The jet – identified as a B-12PP – plummeted to the bottom and left holes within the 109-storey constructing, which has since been boarded up.
Nevertheless, China has not revealed the reason for the crash and has reportedly made it unimaginable to access footage of the incident from throughout the country.
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The BBC reports that videos of what happened have been faraway from China’s web, while unrelated pictures of the skyscraper have also been taken off Chinese social media platforms.
Aviation firms have also suspended light aircraft operations, the outlet said, with a source telling them: ‘We were told not to talk about it’.
Other national media outlets, including Xinhua news agency and China Central Television, haven’t reported on the incident, in accordance with Reuters.
The plane involved within the crash had deviated from its intended flight path after taking off from Shifosi Airport half an hour earlier, in accordance with Global.hk.
It was on account of turn around and return to the airport for five.45pm, but flight monitoring lost the tracking signal around Beijing’s East Fifth Ring Road.
After this, the aircraft couldn’t be reached and moments later it crashed into the skyscraper.
The crash took place inside a no-fly zone just just a few kilometres from Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party’s heavily guarded headquarters.
China analyst Bill Bishop wrote on X that the crash was a ‘massive security breach’.
He said: ‘Not many more seconds of flying and [the crash] might have been at Zhongnanhai… [That would have been] an earthquake in Beijing’s security system.’
Beijing district authorities have said an investigation into the crash is underway, but haven’t named the pilot who died.
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