Former Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Roy Halladay, 40, is killed crashing his plane

Daily Mail ^ | 11-07-2017 | James Wilkinson

[ZagFan]

What a tragedy if true.

[TBP]

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3602593/posts

[Crucial]

This is a bizzare title that makes it sound like he meant to crash his plane.

[rarestia]

Happened just north of me. Witnesses said there was smoke coming from the cockpit. He just got the plane last month based on a Tweet posted by BayNews9.

[Deplorable American1776]

It’s true... Pasco County Sheriff announced it...WFLA reported it, too...

[Puppage]

Looks like a kit plane like John Denver’s.

[Alberta's Child]

But Halladay will be best known for playing for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies from 1998-2013, and for being one of just six MLB pitchers to win the Cy Young award for both American and International play.

Huh?

Do they mean "American and National Leagues?" WTF?

[gaijin]

[taildragger]

Oh no... 2nd Icon 5 to go down where those aboard perished. Prayers to the Halladay family.

Google the Wing Design, John Roncz, and the Patents to make this bird Stall Proof, doesn't make sense, I want to know more...

[montag813]

Do they mean "American and National Leagues?" WTF?

Editing in "journalism" is dead and buried. You see this crap every day now.

[hsmomx3]

Exactly my thoughts as well. Horrible.

[freedumb2003]

>>This is a bizzare title that makes it sound like he meant to crash his plane.<<

As journalism died, grammar was the second casualty.

Facts were the first.

[Old Yeller]

I just saw him pitch a couple of months ago at the NBC tournament in Wichita. He was on the Kansas All-Stars which was a team of former major leaguers.

[pinkandgreenmom]

Sad day here. Roy Halladay was one of my son’s baseball coaches. A nicer man (and his wife and children) you would never meet. My kids go to school with his and I will never forget the time my son did a report on airplanes (his favorite topic), and Roy came up to him afterwards and told him how much he enjoyed his report and then they talked about airplanes for a few minutes.

Prayers up to his family.

[Paulie]

Man, only 40.

Hope he knew the Lord.

Prayers for the family and the scores of others saddened by the news.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Part of the Phillies’ dream pitching team of a few years back that on paper looked like one of the best ever assembled - then a few minor injuries, the Phils’ usual anemic hitting, and a silly trade or two and the dream’s gone like smoke in the wind.....

[fella]

It’s an amphibian. With smoke in the cockpit he my have hit the water at to steep of an angle and nosed in hard.

[littleharbour]

I remember him in his Toronto days. A great talent wasted on a mediocre team.

[grobdriver]

Looks like a kit plane like John Denver’s.

Not a kit plane.

Denver was killed in a Long EZ, a Burt Rutan design, trying to change fuel tanks with a pair of pliers while on final.

The Long EZ is a canard aircraft - little wing up front (the canard), winglets, two-place tandem.

As for being stallproof, a canard is the only really stallproof aircraft type out there, short of some sort of automatic intervention when the AOA starts to get to the red zone.

[ridesthemiles]

Another example of the reporting that is done these days.