A small aircraft crashed into Beijing’s tallest building on Friday, the global flight tracking service provider Flightradar24, following witness accounts. evacuations in the city’s business district. (Credit/Associated Press).
Video captured a large emergency response after asmall planecrashed into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper on Friday. prompting an immediate information blackout from Chinese authorities, The Associated Press reported.
Video. photos shared on social media appear to show theaircraft plummeting to the groundafter smashing a large hole in the 108-story CITIC Tower, located in the Chinese capital's business district.
Police, fire. EMS workers were spotted at the scene preventing witnesses from taking photos and attempting to clear the area.
People gather near the CITIC Tower in Beijing on June 26. 2026, after an eyewitness reported plane debris at the base of Beijing's tallest building. Video footage taken from a nearby building by the witness showed fire trucks blasting water at smoke billowing from the 528-metre (1,732-foot) CITIC Tower. while the wreck of a plane lay on the ground beside the building.(Adek Berry/AFP via Getty Images)
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A person working inside the high-rise said the plane crash triggered the building's fire alarms.
Flight tracking data from Flightradar24 indicated the aircraft was a Sunward SA 60L Aurora, which took off about 30 miles east of the city. crashed shortly before 6 p.m. local time.
ADS-B data for the flight only includes a partial flight path. stops prior to the crash, according toair traffic data.
A hole is seen (R) on the side of the CITIC Tower in Beijing on June 26. 2026, after a reported plane crash.(Peter Catterall/AFP via Getty Images)
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The APreportedthat photos. videos of the incident escaped the country’s "great firewall" and were circulated onsocial media platformX, though Chinese censors have removed content about the crash from the country's restricted internet.
No information has been released by government officials or state-run media, as of Friday afternoon.
Police personnel block the road near the CITIC Tower in Beijing on June 26, 2026.(Adek Berry/AFP via Getty Images)
The cause of the crash, identity of the pilot, and the number of casualties remain unclear.
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