The accident, which recalled bad memories of the disastrous 2001 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center, occurred on East 72nd Street, not far from the FDR drive that runs along the east side of Manhattan, according to reports on CNN and Fox News.
The stations broadcast pictures of flames coming out of several floors on two buildings. Fox news reported the flames at the 19th and 20th stories.
Fox quoted New York Fire Department officials as saying people were trapped by heavy smoke in the building or buildings.
Broadcasters relayed reassurances from security officials that it was not believed to be an intentional or terrorist attacks. Stock prices nipped down for several minutes on the trading boards of the world's financial capital, but bounced back on the reassurances, Fox reported.
But the television broadcasters said it did not to appear to be an intentional attack on the building.
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 This image from television shows fire and smoke after a small plane crashed into a high-rise on Manhattan's Upper East Side, police said Wednesday Oct. 11, 2006.Photograph by : (AP Photo/Courtesy WCBS-TV) |
 Smoke billows from the side of a high-rise building where a small aircraft crashed in it in New York October 11, 2006. A small aircraft crashed into a building on Manhattan's Upper East Side on Wednesday, but a U.S. official said there was no evidence it was terrorism-related. (Keith Bedford/Reuters) |
 A small plane crashed into a high-rise on the Upper East Side, raining down debris on Manhattan and unleashing what witnesses reported was a gigantic fireball |
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