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A Plane Hits Beijing's Tallest Tower, and the Censors Move Faster Than the Investigators
A small Chinese-built aircraft crashed into the upper floors of Beijing's CITIC Tower on Friday evening, scattering debris across the central business district and forcing evacuations. Authorities offered no account of casualties or cause, imposed an information blackout and began scrubbing videos from social media, leaving open the central question of whether the crash was an accident or something deliberate.