Today on Inside Edition: Panic Sends People Fleeing Out of Times Square

1:45 PM PDT, August 7, 2019 - Inside Edition Staff

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Motorcycles backfiring sent a ripple of panic through Times Square Tuesday.

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And a pilot documented his crash-landing in a Canadian forest.

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