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Plane bound for Volusia rams into Miami building
By Coralie Carlson
A small plane crashed into the Miami branch of the Federal Reserve Bank during a holiday party on Thursday night, killing the pilot, authorities said.
No one inside the building was injured.
``We have no information that it was an intentional crash,'' said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown in Washington. ``It appears to be an accident.''
More than 100 people were attending a holiday party in the one-story building when the experimental aircraft slammed into the northeast side of the bank, exploded and burst into flames. The building also houses the Miami bureau of The Associated Press.
Brown said the FAA believes the plane was coming from Marathon, Fla., in the Florida Keys and intended to travel about 300 miles north to New Smyrna Beach on Florida's central East Coast.
The plane crashed about three miles west of Miami International Airport, but the pilot did not contact air traffic controllers there, airport spokeswoman Tere Estorino said.
The Four Winds 192, which was manufactured in July, was flying north before making a sharp turn southeast and crashing, said Alan Yurman, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board.
The reason for the sharp turn is unknown and the male pilot, who was the only passenger, has not been identified, Yurman said.
``When we first came out of and walked around the side, it was really hard to determine that it was a plane,'' said vice president and branch manager Jay Curry, who was attending the party at the time of the crash. The event was attended by current and former directors of the bank.
Some windows were broken but there appeared to be no structural damage to the 280,000-square foot building.
The Four Winds 192 is described on the company's Web site as a four-seat, single turboprop aircraft with a composite fuselage, a strutless wing and a range of 1,000 miles.
An FBI agent assigned to Miami International Airport was en route to the accident and the agency was keeping in close contact with investigators, said FBI Miami spokeswoman Judy Orihuela.
The bank is a branch of the Federal Reserve in Atlanta. It processes cash and checks from banks and other financial institutions for 13 counties in South Florida, bank spokesman Pierce Nelson said.
Normal operations at the branch resumed by 11:30 p.m. EST, Nelson said.
The branch, which employs about 250 people, is busy at night when commercial banks send the day's checks for overnight processing. Its vault holds untold amounts of cash in bills and coins.
The bank building is just north of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees U.S. military activities in 32 nations and 12 dependencies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Copyright 2002 Orlando Sentinel
By Coralie Carlson
A small plane crashed into the Miami branch of the Federal Reserve Bank during a holiday party on Thursday night, killing the pilot, authorities said.
No one inside the building was injured.
``We have no information that it was an intentional crash,'' said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown in Washington. ``It appears to be an accident.''
More than 100 people were attending a holiday party in the one-story building when the experimental aircraft slammed into the northeast side of the bank, exploded and burst into flames. The building also houses the Miami bureau of The Associated Press.
Brown said the FAA believes the plane was coming from Marathon, Fla., in the Florida Keys and intended to travel about 300 miles north to New Smyrna Beach on Florida's central East Coast.
The plane crashed about three miles west of Miami International Airport, but the pilot did not contact air traffic controllers there, airport spokeswoman Tere Estorino said.
The Four Winds 192, which was manufactured in July, was flying north before making a sharp turn southeast and crashing, said Alan Yurman, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board.
The reason for the sharp turn is unknown and the male pilot, who was the only passenger, has not been identified, Yurman said.
``When we first came out of and walked around the side, it was really hard to determine that it was a plane,'' said vice president and branch manager Jay Curry, who was attending the party at the time of the crash. The event was attended by current and former directors of the bank.
Some windows were broken but there appeared to be no structural damage to the 280,000-square foot building.
The Four Winds 192 is described on the company's Web site as a four-seat, single turboprop aircraft with a composite fuselage, a strutless wing and a range of 1,000 miles.
An FBI agent assigned to Miami International Airport was en route to the accident and the agency was keeping in close contact with investigators, said FBI Miami spokeswoman Judy Orihuela.
The bank is a branch of the Federal Reserve in Atlanta. It processes cash and checks from banks and other financial institutions for 13 counties in South Florida, bank spokesman Pierce Nelson said.
Normal operations at the branch resumed by 11:30 p.m. EST, Nelson said.
The branch, which employs about 250 people, is busy at night when commercial banks send the day's checks for overnight processing. Its vault holds untold amounts of cash in bills and coins.
The bank building is just north of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees U.S. military activities in 32 nations and 12 dependencies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Copyright 2002 Orlando Sentinel
