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 ...
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
He'd still be alive if the Yanks had beaten the Tigers. How crazy life is.
Poor weather and a new pilot! Bah!
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"
Cory Lidle, dead at 34.
>>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...
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
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.
South Hills High is about 20 minutes from me.
The Yankees would have won game 4 if Torre had started Lidle instead of the awful Jaret Wright.
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.
pretty sickening if you ask me....
and typical.
I heard that too. They (fatso and fruitloops) were being complete a$$holes. www.wfan.com The interview is on the site.
Lidle's family calls for Hastert to resign.
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.
Bizarre.
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?
Wasn't that what had happened to JFK Jr.?
The Hastert Foley Jokes are good on other threads, not so much here.
It's a tragedy.
gallows humor is one thing, but it's just being stupid at this point.
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