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Reports: Plane That Hit Condo Tower Registered to Yankees Pitcher Corey Lidle
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,219921,00.html ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: baseball; corylidle; localnews; notterrorism; overblownstory; smallplanecrash; yankees
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To: Irontank

N-number : N929CD
Aircraft Serial Number : 1230
Aircraft Manufacturer : CIRRUS DESIGN CORP
Model : SR20
Engine Manufacturer : LYCOMING
Model : I0-360-ES
Aircraft Year : 2002
Owner Name : REGISTRATION PENDING
Owner Address : 7824 SUGAR PINE BLUE
LAKELAND, FL, 33810
Type of Owner : Individual
Registration Date : Not Specified
Airworthiness Certificate Type : Standard
Approved Operations : Normal


41 posted on 10/11/2006 2:02:02 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Irontank

He'd still be alive if the Yanks had beaten the Tigers. How crazy life is.


42 posted on 10/11/2006 2:02:07 PM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Irontank
Prayers for the people in the building. Just heartbreaking in the inexcusable act that brought about this disaster.

Poor weather and a new pilot! Bah!

43 posted on 10/11/2006 2:02:12 PM PDT by OldFriend (Should we wait for them to come and kill us again? President Karzai 9/26/06)
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To: doug from upland

Amen


Fighter jets went over North Texas around noon CST today and hit a "atmospheric disturbance" than on Fox NORAD said that fighter jets were "over a lot of different U.S. Cities"


44 posted on 10/11/2006 2:03:02 PM PDT by stopem (God Bless the U.S.A the Troops who protect her, and their Commander In Chief !)
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To: Irontank
Cory Fulton Lidle...Born: 03/22/1972, Married Melanie Varela (1/7/97); one son, Christopher Taylor (9/18/00)...1990 graduate of South Hills High School (CA), where he was a teammate of Jason Giambi...Was All-State his senior year...His twin brother, Kevin, played minor league baseball, first as a catcher and then as a pitcher...Is a relative of Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.

Cory Lidle, dead at 34.

45 posted on 10/11/2006 2:03:28 PM PDT by montag813
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To: doug from upland

>>How strange is fate

I forget the year, but the Indians were supposed to move their spring training base to Homestead, FL, but when Homestead was hit by a hurricane, they wound up in Winter Haven instead (former spring training home of Red Sox). Some of their players were out water-skiing at a nearby lake--Lake Mary or Little Lake Mary or something, and three of them died in a mishap...if they hadn't been a hurricane, they would have been
in the Homestead area instead of the Winter Haven area...


46 posted on 10/11/2006 2:03:39 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Irontank

Local radio guys ripped him a new one live on air yesterday for saying team was not prepared for Tigers!

http://wfan.com/homepage/local_audioclip_282180715.html


47 posted on 10/11/2006 2:03:44 PM PDT by MisterI
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To: raccoonradio

That was so sad ... friend's friend is a relative of Gerardi, and I remember his somber announcement to the crowd, awaiting the start of the game.


48 posted on 10/11/2006 2:04:31 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: montag813

South Hills High is about 20 minutes from me.


49 posted on 10/11/2006 2:05:04 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
He'd still be alive if the Yanks had beaten the Tigers. How crazy life is.

The Yankees would have won game 4 if Torre had started Lidle instead of the awful Jaret Wright.

50 posted on 10/11/2006 2:05:19 PM PDT by montag813
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To: buccaneer81

oh OK; thanks for correction. I remember the incident because some "radio fans" like me were heading to a get-together in Chelmsford, MA, at an ice cream place owned by a DJ who was part of our group...and the big story that day (mentioned on news and during ballgames) was Kile's death. It was on a Saturday in August of 2000 IIRC.


51 posted on 10/11/2006 2:05:31 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: the invisib1e hand

pretty sickening if you ask me....

and typical.


52 posted on 10/11/2006 2:06:23 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Golden Eagle defends scum like Bill Gates and Fred Phelps. And he does it ignorantly.)
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To: capydick
To say they were disrespectful to him would be an understatement.

I heard that too. They (fatso and fruitloops) were being complete a$$holes. www.wfan.com The interview is on the site.

53 posted on 10/11/2006 2:06:28 PM PDT by RightWingNilla
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To: Irontank

Lidle's family calls for Hastert to resign.


54 posted on 10/11/2006 2:07:56 PM PDT by montag813
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To: MikefromOhio
pretty sickening if you ask me....

Well, gallows humor is an old tradition on FR. We all face death, and one never knows when the bell will toll for thee. Gallows humor makes it a bit more bearable.

55 posted on 10/11/2006 2:09:22 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Irontank

Bizarre.


56 posted on 10/11/2006 2:09:28 PM PDT by Vision ("As a man thinks...so is he." Proverbs 23:7)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
He'd still be alive if the Yanks had beaten the Tigers. How crazy life is.

How do you know the plane wouldn't have crashed the next time he flew it, if there indeed was a problem with the plane?

57 posted on 10/11/2006 2:09:37 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Names Ash Housewares
Not uncommon for non instrument rated pilots to inadvertantly get into instrument conditions and lose control.

Wasn't that what had happened to JFK Jr.?

58 posted on 10/11/2006 2:09:56 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: montag813

The Hastert Foley Jokes are good on other threads, not so much here.

It's a tragedy.


59 posted on 10/11/2006 2:09:57 PM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: montag813

gallows humor is one thing, but it's just being stupid at this point.


60 posted on 10/11/2006 2:10:31 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Pukin Dog - FR's shining example of WHY there needs to be an ignore function.)
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