China Won't Reveal Why a Plane Crashed Into Beijing's Highest Building
The crash raised questions about airspace security as officials issued only a brief report and scrubbed eyewitness footage from the internet.
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China has deleted clips of the plane crash in Beijing from the internet and airlines have been muzzled. Now speculation is growing about how the crash could have happened in a country that has some of the world's strictest aviation regulations.
What does secrecy over plane crash tell us about China’s security state?
Last Friday afternoon, a light aircraft belonging to a local aviation school flew into the side of Beijing’s tallest building, the 109-storey Citic Tower, killing the pilot and injuring at least 13 people. Five days later, we’re none the wiser about “why, and how, that happened”, said the BBC. The only official statement on the incident is a “60-word report detailing the basic facts in state-owned Beijing Daily”, while eyewitness videos and phot…
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