A small plane appeared to have crashed into Beijing’s tallest building on Friday, with witnesses reporting plane debris at the skyscraper’s base and AFP journalists seeing a hole in the building’s upper floors.
Video footage taken by a witness from a nearby building showed fire trucks blasting water at small flames on an outcropping near the ground at the 528-metre (1,732-foot) CITIC Tower, as well as on the pavement.
The images also showed what appeared to be part of a small plane on the ground beside the building.
A video on Chinese social media that appeared to be of the same skyscraper showed debris falling from the building. AFP could not immediately verify this clip.
AFP journalists at the scene saw a hole in the windows of one of the upper floors of the skyscraper, which is located near the CCTV public television headquarters in the east of the Chinese capital.
