A plane crashed into a tower in Beijing but China is not saying what happened

The development

The collision left holes on the side of the tower, but Beijing has scrubbed other visible traces of the incident

The impact

The significance lies in what happens next: BBC notes that responses are already forming.

The plane backdrop

The landscape around plane, crashed, tower, beijing, china has been shifting for some time, and BBC places this development within that longer trajectory.

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Our plane read

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of plane, crashed, tower, beijing, china: The collision left holes on the side of the tower, but Beijing has scrubbed other visible traces of the incident.