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	Guardian \| The Pirelli tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At 127m (400 feet), it is 30-storeys high and bears down on central Milan where it is known as the Pirelli tower, although the Italian tyre and cable company do not have office there.
		The Pirelli tower was designed to seem transparent, which some critics would argue is a stylish antidote to the bleak, monolithic rectangular tower blocks that would come to dominate the following decades.
		The Pirelli tower was seen as a shimmering glass landmark for Milan - Italy's northern metropolis which is also a centre for fashion, furniture and product design - and an illustration of how far the country had come in its reconstruction after the second world war.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4397056-103681,00.html (248 words)

	CNN.com - Crash skyscraper could reopen soon - April 20, 2002
		The National Aviation Authority said Fasulo radioed the control tower at Milan's Linate Airport to report "a small problem" with his landing gear as he was approaching the airport tarmac to land.
		The tower tried to put him into a holding pattern to the west of the tarmac, but the pilot turned north instead, the authority said.
		When the tower contacted the pilot again to inform him he was making "improper manoeuvres," he told officials he was trying to fix the problem with the landing gear so he could land, and that was the last time the tower was able to reach him.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/20/milan.fasulo/index.html (774 words)

	CNN.com - Three dead as plane hits Milan's tallest building - April 19, 2002
		The pilot, flying in clear skies, had radioed the control tower at Linate to report a "small problem" lowering his landing gear as he was approaching the airport tarmac.
		The tower tried to put him into a holding pattern to the west of the tarmac, but the pilot turned north instead, the aviation authority said.
		When the tower told the pilot he was making "improper maneuvers," he said he was trying to fix the landing gear -- the last contact he had with aviation officials.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/18/italy.milan/index.html?related (727 words)

	Plane slams into Italian skyscraper - smh.com.au
		The Pirelli tower in Milan smoulders after it was hit by a light plane early today, Australian time.
		A small plane slammed into the upper floors of the landmark Pirelli tower in the centre of Milan today, killing three people and triggering fears of a repeat of the September 11 attacks.
		The Pirelli tower, designed in the 1950s, is one of the world's highest concrete skyscrapers and at 127 metres the tallest building in Italy's financial capital.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/04/19/1019020695311.html (736 words)

	Pirelli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1950s Alberto Pirelli commissioned the building of a famous skyscraper in Milan in the area in which the first factory was located in the 19th century: see Pirelli Tower.
		Pirelli is the primary sponsor of the Italian soccer club Internazionale and the Brazilian soccer club Palmeiras.
		The Pirelli Calendar is published yearly and regularly features famous actresses and models such as Jennifer Lopez.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pirelli (279 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| September 11 fears as plane crashes into Pirelli tower
		At 5.50pm local time a single-engine Rockwell Commander aircraft smashed into the 25th floor of the Pirelli tower in the heart of Milan, killing five people and injuring 30.
		Pictures of burning towers have become the symbol of Western fear since the suicide attacks on the World Trade Centre.
		There was an awful expectancy in the voices on CNN, as they broadcast against the familiar backdrop of smoke pouring from a tower as a bloodied office worker was led to safety.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/19/wmilan19.xml (461 words)

	Plane Crashes Into Milan Skyscraper
		The images of a burning skyscraper quickly prompted fears of terrorism and comparisons with the destruction of the World Trade Center towers in New York on Sept. 11.
		Italian time), from the office block, which houses the administrative offices of the local Lombardy region and is next to the city's central train station.
		Some 1,200 people work in the building known as the Pirelli skyscraper, but the Italian tire and cable company does not operate out of the building.
	www.thestreet.com /tech/marketmovers/10018171.html (322 words)

	PIPER AIRCRAFT CRASHES INTO PIRELLI BUILDING - PRIOR KNOWLEDGE EMERGES
		When the tower contacted the pilot again to inform him he was making "improper maneuvers," he told officials he was trying to fix the problem with the landing gear so he could land, and that was the last time the tower was able to reach him.
		Claudio Chetta was in a meeting on the 24th floor of the Pirelli tower when she heard the explosion.
		The tone of Fasulo's conversations with the control tower were reportedly calm as he informed them, at 5.43 pm, that he was attempting a manual solution to the problem with his landing gear; there was no distress signal.
	www.propagandamatrix.com /milan.html (4047 words)

	The Scotsman - Mystery of an experienced pilot’s journey to tragedy
		The control tower contacted the pilot again after seeing he was drifting to the north, in the wrong direction, the statement said.
		The skyscraper is known as the Pirelli Tower but the Italian tyre and cable company does not now operate out of the building.
		The tower is one of the main symbols of Milan, along with the city’s cathedral.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=418472002 (779 words)

	Yale Daily News - A bad sign? IKEA may tarnish Pirelli
		Architecture is inherently functional, but the use of the Pirelli Building, which has been vacant for five years, is no longer as an office building.
		Reconceiving the Pirelli tower as a meaningless prop denies the importance of the building as an icon.
		The relationship between IKEA and the Pirelli Building does not have to be one of opposition.
	www.yaledailynews.com /PrintArticle.aspx?ArticleID=20832 (858 words)

	Milan Grattacielo Pirelli, Pirellone: Pirelli Tower in Milan Area, Italy IT
		The Pirelli Tower stands proudly on the north-east side of Milan and dates back to 1955, when it was designed and built by a leading group of Italian architects.
		The tower stands on the site where Giovan Battista Pirelli built his first tyre factory in 1872 and was the first building in Milan that was taller than the Madonna on the Duomo.
		One of the most interesting attractions at Milan's Grattacielo Pirelli (Pirelli Tower) is the small statue of the Virgin Mary on the roof of the tower, as a mark of respect to Milan's Duomo Cathedral.
	www.milan.attraction-guides.com /milan_grattacielo.html (264 words)

	CNN.com - Italy crash skyscraper reopens - April 22, 2002
		A crowd gathered outside the Pirelli Tower in central Milan as office workers filed into the bottom 11 floors of the building.
		Two floors of the landmark 32-storey tower were badly damaged when a single-engine Commander 112 aircraft smashed into it last Thursday.
		But as he approached Linate airport, he told the control tower he had trouble with the plane's landing gear.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/22/pirelli.reopen (828 words)

	AP Wire \| 10/11/2006 \| NYC plane crash spurs memories in Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wednesday's crash of a small plane into a 50-story condominium tower on Manhattan's Upper East Side - which also rattled nerves five years after the Sept. 11 attacks - triggered memories of the Milan crash.
		Pilot Luigi Fasulo and two workers inside the Pirelli tower were killed April 18, 2002, when his Rockwell Commander 112TC slammed into the building just before 6 p.m.
		Air-safety officials said the "most probable" cause was that the pilot could not steer the aircraft due to technical difficulties.
	www.kansascity.com /mld/kansascity/news/politics/15733946.htm (227 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - News - IKEA Threatens Breuer Icon - 2002.1113
		However, unless IKEA changes its current plans, construction of the facility's parking lot will result in the demolition of a substantial part of the Pirelli Building, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1969 for the Armstrong Tire Company.
		It consists of a tower asymmetrically placed over a long, two-story building and adjacent warehouse.
		To them, Narracci counters: "Consider that most of the great architects and artists of the 19th and 20th century, including the great Pablo Picasso, were not popularly regarded until many years after the creation of their works.
	www.architectureweek.com /2002/1113/news_1-1.html (679 words)

	pirelli tower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		gio ponti, architect of the pirelli tower, or 'pirellone' in milan, italy.....................................................................................................................................
		the pirelli building was built by the same pirelli family that
		the tower was planned by architect gio ponti in
	www.designboom.com /portrait/ponti/pirelli.html (255 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Pirelli tower workers saved by fine timing
		THE death toll in the Pirelli tower might have been much higher had it not been for the timing of the crash and renovation work on several upper floors of Milan's tallest building.
		But the panic was quickly quelled as aviation authorities reported that the pilot, believed to be the only occupant of the aircraft and almost certainly among the dead, had made a distress call minutes before flying into the Pirelli building.
		The bodies of two of the dead were laid out on the pavement near to where they had landed alongside the Pirelli skyscraper, said Massimo Guarischi, a regional councillor.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/19/wmilan119.xml (708 words)

	Pirelli tires
		Pirelli and C. SpA is an important industrial company based in Milan, Italy.
		In 2004, Pirelli tires are used by Subaru and other competitors in the World Rally Championship.
		Pirelli is the primary sponsor of the Italian soccer club Internazionale.
	www.discountpartcenter.com /tire/pirelli.htm (187 words)

	CNN.com - Thousands mourn Pirelli Tower dead - April 23, 2002
		In a mass held for the victims of the crash that revived memories of the September 11 attacks, Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi joined relatives and colleagues of the two lawyers to mark the disaster which unnerved the country.
		A preliminary autopsy failed to establish a cause of death of the pilot, although a legal source said it was most likely Fasulo was killed by the impact of flying into the tower.
		The 11 lower floors of the tower reopened on Monday, but on Tuesday the foot of the 30-storey building was still littered with paper, glass and the remains of the outer walls of two floors which were carved open by the impact of the crash.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/04/23/pirelli.service/index.html (702 words)

	Scheda Gio Ponti
		Designed by the Ponti Fornaroli Rosselli Studio with the collaboration of the Valtolina-Dell’Orto Studio, the Pirelli Tower often defined as a “small skyscraper” is 120,10 metres high, 18,50 metres deep at the centre and 70,40 metres wide.
		Indeed, as Ponti himself explained, for expression the Pirelli was certainly “vertical” at the sides but, despite the due contrivances, the horizontal lines remain on the façade.
		With regard to illusion, Ponti would have wanted to obtain the effect of a vertical division at the two extremities of the tower, a type of continual, luminous crevice but this appeared segmented by the slabs of the balconies that were extended for structural reasons.
	www.thais.it /citta_italiane/Milano/Architettura/GioPonti/Architettura_Mi/schede/scheda026.htm (387 words)

	List of towers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Towers are generally built to take advantage of their height and can stand alone or as part of a larger structure.
		Towers as defined here are meant for regular but not living access by humans, and are self supporting (no guy wires).
		This is not a tower but a tall statue or monument not intended for human access.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_towers (522 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Plane hits Milan skyscraper
		The top floors of the 30-storey Pirelli building caught fire, but the blaze was quickly brought under control.
		Fears that this was a replay of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York last year were dismissed by the Italian authorities who are treating the crash as an accident.
		The Pirelli building, which is the city's tallest, houses the offices of the regional Lombardy government, and is next to the city's main railway station.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1937976.stm (602 words)

	April 18, 2002 Pirelli Tower plane crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pirelli Tower Plane Crash took place on 17:48 (local time) on April 18, 2002.
		The crash happened when a Rockwell Commander A112 crashed into the upper floors of the Pirelli Tower.
		Later as the plane flew over Milan, Italy the pilot radioed to the control tower at Linate Airport that he was running out of fuel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2002_Pirelli_Tower_plane_crash (415 words)

	AP Wire \| 10/11/2006 \| List of plane-building crashes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The towers collapse and a section of the Pentagon is heavily damaged; nearly 3,000 people are killed.
		Though Bishop left a note supporting the Sept. 11 attacks, police said it was a suicide but not a terrorist attack.
		Investigators conclude it was most likely he fell ill or couldn't steer his Rockwell Commander 112TC while experiencing technical difficulties, not that he tried to kill himself as was initially suggested.
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/15733993.htm (241 words)

	Small plane crashes into Milan tower [Archive] - Airwise Discussion Forum
		The partiucular construction of the Pirelli (the higher in the world in his category) make that there are not demage on the structures.
		The suicide could be the principal reason, in this case he decide before the arrival over LIN airport when the tower asked him to overfly the airport waiting to find asolution to the gear.
		It's difficoult to have a real idea concerning the reason of the crash on the Pirelli building, by the way only two possibilities are open, suicide or low attention of the pilot.
	forum.airwise.com /forum/archive/index.php/t-1051.html (1020 words)

	Bexley Council - The Leaning Tower Of Pirelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the early hours of Sunday morning (10 April), the Pirelli Tower took a final bow, before crashing to the ground.
		The tower, which is a familiar landmark in Thamesmead and Belvedere, was demolished with a controlled explosion following the closure of the Pirelli factory last year.
		The tower was built during the nineties and was approximately 76 metres high.
	www.bexley.gov.uk /news/2005/04/1301.html (95 words)

	Luigi Fasulo Did Not Crash into the Milan Skyscraper "By Accident"
		When interviewed by Swiss television, Sandro Balestra, director of Locarno airfield, said you were known in the area for at least 30 years.
		Unfortunately at the time of the takeoff, the control tower was closed but a radio registration system recorded the takeoff.
		The crash was recorded by Milan's Linate control tower.
	www.geocities.com /roboplanes/rockwell.html (499 words)

	<jan04> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was only in 1960 that Gio Ponti built his most famous skyscraper, for the tyre company Pirelli.
		To make sure that nobody's feelings were hurt, an 85 cm replica of the Madonnina was installed right at the top of the Pirelli tower, in accordance with the Archbishop's instructions.
		The Pirelli building, certainly a dramatically beautiful and original construction, was something of an exception with respect to other architecture of its day.
	www.hellomilano.it /content/henry/jan04.htm (967 words)

	ABC News: NYC Plane Crash Spurs Memories in Italy
		NYC Small Plane Crash Triggers Memories of 2002 Small Plane Crash Into Pirelli Tower in Italy
		MILAN, Italy Oct 11, 2006 (AP)— Italy's financial capital feared the worst when a small plane struck the landmark Pirelli tower on April 18, 2002 just seven months after two jets brought down the World Trade Center in a terrorist attack.
		Wednesday's crash of a small plane into a 50-story condominium tower on Manhattan's Upper East Side which also rattled nerves five years after the Sept. 11 attacks triggered memories of the Milan crash.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2555080 (273 words)

	Autopsy Of Milan Pilot Indicates He Wasn't Ill - Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some 300 government workers returned to offices on the lower floors of the Pirelli tower in Milan on Monday just four days after the single-engine plane struck the city's tallest building, killing the pilot and two lawyers working inside.
		Employees returning to work on the first 11 floors of the tower Monday observed a moment of silence for those killed in the crash, which occurred after official business hours, at 5:47 p.m.
		The remaining 200 workers whose offices are in the Pirelli tower have been moved to temporary quarters in other state offices, said government spokeswoman Ivana Carboni.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/670796/posts (2126 words)

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