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posted by azrael on Thursday October 30 2014, @03:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the breaking-news dept.

There isn't much information yet, but the BBC is reporting that an aeroplane has hit a building at a Kansas airport within the US.

Photographs from the area show grey smoke billowing from the Mid-Continent airport in Wichita, Kansas.

Emergency crews were responding to the FlightSafety International building, local media reported.

Update: KSN has confirmed from the FAA that a twin engine Beechcraft lost an engine on takeoff from Wichita’s Mid-Continent airport and crashed into the FlightSafety building at the airport. The east side of the roof on that building has collapsed. One person is in critical condition. KSN has confirmed 10 people are unaccounted for.

Live streaming video is available from the KSN link.

As more information comes in, please add it in comments to this story. We'll update the main story when we know more.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @03:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @03:49PM (#111557)

    We're not really a fly-over state, are we?

  • (Score: 2) by sudo rm -rf on Thursday October 30 2014, @03:54PM

    by sudo rm -rf (2357) on Thursday October 30 2014, @03:54PM (#111562) Journal
    Here's MidContinent Airport's twitter feed [twitter.com].
  • (Score: 4, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:15PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:15PM (#111567)

    You have got to be kidding me.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:15PM (#111568)

    Can't make up shit this gooood!

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:16PM (#111569)

    Quick! Invade someone!

    • (Score: 2) by gman003 on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:37PM

      by gman003 (4155) on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:37PM (#111603)
      I hear Canada has oil^H^H^Hbeen looking at us funny lately. Maybe we need to go bring them some democracy.
      • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday October 30 2014, @06:22PM

        by Thexalon (636) on Thursday October 30 2014, @06:22PM (#111620)

        Only if we go solely for the Francophones. The Americans generally don't like invading English-speakers.

        So instead, following another older American tradition, why don't we invade a country that is too unimportant for Americans to have even had a thought about in a very long time, like Burundi, Tajikistan, or Liechtenstein?

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @07:35PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @07:35PM (#111645)

          Burkina Faso is mildly in the news today.
          Bet 99% of americans haven't even heard of the place.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by CRCulver on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:29PM

    by CRCulver (4390) on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:29PM (#111572) Homepage
    Any site with a slow submissions queue is never going to be an appropriate venue for reporting on breaking news like this. By the time a decent amount of eyeballs have fallen on the story, that shocking sudden development will have long since been explained away as not so shocking after all, and a small plane crash is hardly the sort of news that drew most people here. Please, please stop trying to make this a serious general news site and focus more on the News for Nerds angle that led people to search for a Slashdot alternative.
    • (Score: 1) by ticho on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:44PM

      by ticho (89) on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:44PM (#111576) Homepage Journal

      While I fully agree with you, the comment above yours made this article worth it for me. :-)

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Tramii on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:45PM

      by Tramii (920) on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:45PM (#111577)

      If you don't like the stories, submit some better ones.

      If you see a particular story you don't like, don't waste your time reading it and do NOT comment in it. If no one comments, then the story will die and similar future postings will be less likely to happen.

      Personally, I'm glad this story was posted otherwise I wouldn't have known about it.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:47PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:47PM (#111579)

      The plane was no longer under effective human control, so i will call it a drone.
      or
      "How do you code a drone to avoid buildings when it loses one of its engines?"
      or
      "Reliability under stress and critical failure: Should MBA-types stop bothering admins with inappropriate lessons from any real-life example?"

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by dyingtolive on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:55PM

      by dyingtolive (952) on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:55PM (#111582)

      Well, when the story develops it enables us to discuss the engineering aspects behind the plane crash and maybe someone could speak intelligently upon the situation and how it can be mitigated, thus fostering the kind of meaningful discussion this site could be worthy of were it not for people idly bitching about stories they perceive to lack a technical enough aspect to appear here while doing absolutely nothing to improve the situation from their viewpoint.

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    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by DrMag on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:57PM

      by DrMag (1860) on Thursday October 30 2014, @04:57PM (#111583)

      Some of us don't pay attention to the "breaking news" sites during the day... we don't mind seeing these important stories here.

      Soylentnews is an appropriate venue for this story if for no other reason than there is likely a larger percentage of viewers and commenters who are pilots, engineers, or otherwise knowledgeable to add a helpful point of view in what is going on and why it's important. At least it should be that type of venue; too often we get commenters that don't consider serious topics to be relevant in any way and prefer to troll, and in that sense we do become like any other breaking news site.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:02PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:02PM (#111585)

      I'd rather have a slow site than this kind of crap.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by azrael on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:14PM

      by azrael (2855) on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:14PM (#111590)

      When rocket exploded we got complaints for not covering it quickly enough. Now you object to us covering a plane crash. Makes me think we have a diverse community that don't all like the same things. I wonder what we can do to help users not get upset when we post something that doesn't appeal to them...

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by CRCulver on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:29PM

        by CRCulver (4390) on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:29PM (#111598) Homepage
        A rocket, being connected to spaceflight and science-fiction dreams, is much more appropriate for an offshoot of a News for Nerds site than a garden-variety small plane accident.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @08:42PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 30 2014, @08:42PM (#111667)

        When the rocket failed; it was six hours later before anyone complained. It was on google news for many hours before it was covered here.

    • (Score: 2) by E_NOENT on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:35PM

      by E_NOENT (630) on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:35PM (#111602) Journal

      Any site with a slow submissions queue is never going to be an appropriate venue for reporting on breaking news like this.

      Don't worry, I hear the next release of slashcode includes a systemd wrapper that will speed up the submissions queue significantly!

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      • (Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:47PM

        by GeminiDomino (661) on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:47PM (#111608)

        With mandatory 2048-bit asymmetrical encryption for all story summaries in the database. Because, you know, security and stuff.

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    • (Score: 1) by mattTheOne on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:58PM

      by mattTheOne (1788) on Thursday October 30 2014, @05:58PM (#111616)

      Whats wrong with U? Its a free news site. Chillout.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 31 2014, @01:32PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday October 31 2014, @01:32PM (#111889) Journal

      Please, please stop trying to make this a serious general news site and focus more on the News for Nerds angle that led people to search for a Slashdot alternative.

      This criticism has been alive since the very earliest days of Slashdot, too. But I remember significant events that were not tech-related, such as Columbine and 9/11, when I was glad to discuss it with others in the /. community because the level of discourse was orders of magnitude beyond the shrieking going on in the mass media, and because there were people who had specific knowledge (like guys who had coded air traffic control systems and that sort of thing) who were able to give a much deeper technical angle on what had happened. That was valuable to me, and has always tipped me in favor of having some of these articles for that reason.

      I would generally like to see more LUG-style, maker-style articles, though. If we could blend in Instructables-style content with the format we traditionally use, with a gentleman's agreement to refrain from "RTFM!" and "yer all noobz!" comments, it would take the SN community in a more technical direction you're talking about and we could all learn fun & useful things about technologies and techniques that are new to us, and even new things about areas we consider ourselves proficient in.

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