So sad.
Posted on 10/11/2006 1:51:24 PM PDT by Irontank
small plane crashed into a 50-story luxury high-rise building on Manhattan's Upper East Side Wednesday, igniting a raging fire, killing at least two and initially trapping people on the floors above the point of impact.
New York Police Department officials said two were confirmed dead and there could be more fatalities.
The plane hit the building, located at 524 East 72nd Street, 20 floors above space occupied by the Hospital for Special Surgery.
The New York Fire Department told FOX News that there were people trapped above the point of impact, but the NYPD later said that all occupants located above the fire-ravaged floors had been evacuated.
By 3:30 p.m. ET, the blaze was reported to have been extinguished.
FBI spokeswoman Christine Monaco said there was no indication the crash — which happened five years and one month after Sept. 11, 2001 — was a terrorist attack, but officials "have been sent to the scene as a routine."
"The initial indication is that there is a terrible accident," said Department of Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke. Fighter jets, however, were scrambled and were patrolling the skies above major cities as a precaution, according to Defense Department officials.
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espn reporting Cory Lidle is among dead
corey lidle confirmed dead..he was the pilot..
AP is saying it was his plane, and they found his passport on the street. Sad, 34 yrs. old.
Man, Yankees take their losses hard!
Sean Hannity says there are now four confirmed dead.
Excerpt...
The New York Times
September 8, 2006
In Lidle, Yanks Have Extra Pitcher and Backup Pilot
By TYLER KEPNER
When the Yankees fly, the pilots are not only in the cockpit. There is another pilot in the main cabin, where the players sit. He is probably studying his hand-held Global Positioning System receiver, tracking the weather and noting the plane’s precise speed and altitude.
He is Cory Lidle, who has been a major league pitcher for nine years and a pilot for seven months. He earned his pilot’s license last off-season and bought a four-seat airplane for $187,000. It is a Cirrus SR20, built in 2002, with fewer than 400 hours in the air."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/sports/baseball/08yankees.html?ex=1315368000&en=f488e3344c30a4f4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
yikes-- (and this from a Red Sox fan...prayers...)
from WABC 7
The New York City Medical Examiner's office has confirmed four deaths in what the FAA is calling a small fixed-wing aircraft crash into an UES building Wednesday. We have confirmed that the plane was registered to Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle. There is no word if he was on the plane.
The Port Authority says the aircraft took off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
What kind of plane was it? (Just coming in to this news.)
Weather was marginal for visual based flight.
Not uncommon for non instrument rated pilots to inadvertantly get into instrument conditions and lose control.
very bizarre
PING
ESPN says Lidle was on the plane.
http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/UltraMegaOK1988/Cory_Lidle/31586
"The only thing Cory Lidle wants to do is fly around in his airplane and gamble."
Just like JFK Jr.
it's sad when someone dies so young; am reminded of a Cubs pitcher (Darryl Kile) back in 2000 who was "missing" and they found him in his hotel room, dead of a heart attack
Aviation Ping
So sad.
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