A small aircraft about the size of a car crashed into Beijing’s tallest building, CITIC Tower, on Friday, according to eyewitnesses. The building, known as CITIC Tower or China Zun, is a 108-storey skyscraper in Beijing’s central business district.
Two glass panels on a high floor were damaged in the crash. There was a heavy police presence at the site, with some approach roads closed to cars. Police prevented some people from taking pictures and asked others to delete those they had taken while ushering people away from the building.
A courier who witnessed the crash said he had rushed over to CITIC Tower around 6 p.m. local time after hearing a loud crash as the aircraft hit the building. “It was so loud – louder than fireworks,” he said.
Another courier said he had come to the scene after seeing unverified social media images showing wreckage of a small aircraft on a road next to the building. Social media posts of the building on Friday were quickly removed from Chinese social media.
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