Cory Lidle's Plane Hit the Building in NY

[jmarty6969]

FAGS......... YOU HAVE MAIL THHEHEHEHE...

flattery will get u nowhere

[Three Jack]

I never understand this. This happened at 9/11 as well. How does a passport survive a fiery plane crash?

Better yet, the black box! If the black box always remains intact, why can't they build the plane out of the sdame material!

[bover1]

flattery will get u nowhere

NICE PIG AVATAR......

[wayne1218]

Damn! I am at work, relying on you guys to tell me what is going on, and I have a headache trying to figure it out! 2 dead, no 4 dead, no 3, no 2 on the plane....

It's just as confusing watching it. They kept changing it every 10 minutes!

[Blackbeard]

Damn! I am at work, relying on you guys to tell me what is going on, and I have a headache trying to figure it out! 2 dead, no 4 dead, no 3, no 2 on the plane....

my last few posts seem to be correct, there was also no black box on this type of plane, one of the bodies on the ground was still strapped into the seat!!

[rented mule]

Damn! I am at work, relying on you guys to tell me what is going on, and I have a headache trying to figure it out! 2 dead, no 4 dead, no 3, no 2 on the plane....

For a while they were saying 4 dead. Now, the news captions are saying "At Least 2 Dead".

[jmarty6969]

It's just as confusing watching it. They kept changing it every 10 minutes!

u have to get on the crack pipe to understand the english on these news casters

[Three Jack]

It's just as confusing watching it. They kept changing it every 10 minutes!

I know...I am being slightly sarcastic, as some of you are watching the same press conference and giving different info!

With these type of stories, always different rumors and crap....there will be a 1000 different stories in the short term.

[jmarty6969]

i got a headach info sucks god bless to those envolved on this tragic day in new york again

[thesandman]

From one of the NY Local Channels. Lidle had 75 hours of lessons. He is both the student and himself. That is why they are now saying two were in the plane, Lidle and his instructor. He was planning to fly his plane home to California. I assume he must have been going over something with his instructer befroe leaving.

This is very sad, but they said Lidle's wife and child were on a Commerical jet flying to California. The local newscasters think the reason Lidle has not been formally declared dead, is because they were waiting until Lidles wife was off the plane in California before telling her. Again, all spectulation.

[Three Jack]

From one of the NY Local Channels. Lidle had 75 hours of lessons. He is both the student and himself. That is why they are now saying two were in the plane, Lidle and his instructor. He was planning to fly his plane home to California. I assume he must have been going over something with his instructer befroe leaving.

This is very sad, but they said Lidle's wife and child were on a Commerical jet flying to California. The local newscasters think the reason Lidle has not been formally declared dead, is because they were waiting until Lidles wife was off the plane in California before telling her. Again, all spectulation.

If this is true, that is BRUTAL...the press are going to be around that plane like vultures.

[Spark]

BREAKING NEWS
NBC News and news services
Updated: 11 minutes ago
NEW YORK - A small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into a 50-story condominium tower Wednesday on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, killing two people and raining flaming debris on sidewalks, authorities said. NBC News confirmed Lidle was one of the two dead.

A law enforcement official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lidle was on the plane. And Federal Aviation Administration records showed the single-engine plane was registered to the athlete, who just days ago — after the Yankees’ humiliating elimination from the playoffs — told reporters that he was getting his pilot’s license.

Lidle's passport was reportedly found on the street below the crash site.

Earlier reports had cited four bodies found; the city’s medical examiner’s office later confirmed only two people had died.

The FBI and the Homeland Security Department said there was no evidence it was a terrorist attack. “The initial indication is that there is a terrible accident,” Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said. Nevertheless, fighter jets were sent aloft over U.S. cities as a precaution, the Pentagon said.

The twin-engine plane came through a hazy, cloudy sky and hit the 20th floor of The Belaire — a red-brick tower overlooking the East River, about five miles from the World Trade Center — with a loud bang, touching off a raging fire that cast a pillar of black smoke over the city and sent flames shooting from four windows on two adjoining floors.

Firefighters shot streams of water at the flames from the floors below and put the blaze out in less than an hour.

Large crowds gathered in the street in the largely wealthy New York neighborhood, with many people in tears and some trying to reach loved ones by cell phone.

“I was worried the building would explode, so I got out of there fast,” said Lori Claymont, who fled an adjoining building in sweatpants.

Bodies found on ground, in apartment
Police initially said two people were killed. WNBC reported two bodies found on the ground, one of which was strapped to an aircraft chair. Two bodies were also found in an apartment in the building, the TV station said.

Young May Cha, a 23-year-old Cornell University medical student, said she was walking back from the grocery store down 72nd Street when she saw an object out of the corner of her eye.

“I just saw something come across the sky and crash into that building,” she said. Cha said there appeared to be smoke coming from behind the aircraft, and “it looked like it was flying erratically for the short time that I saw it.”

“The explosion was very small. I was not threatened for my life,” she added.

Richard Drutman, a professional photographer who lives on the 11th floor, said he was talking on the telephone when he felt the building shake.


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“There was a huge explosion. I looked out my window, and saw what appeared to be pieces of wings, on fire, falling from the sky,” Drutman said. He and his girlfriend quickly evacuated the building.

Four-seater plane involved
NBC's Jay Blackman reported it was a fixed-wing aircraft operating under visual flight rules, which means the aircraft did not have to be in contact with air traffic controllers. WNBC reported the plane was a Cirrus 20, which can seat four.




The Federal Aviation Administration said it was too early to determine what type of aircraft was involved, or what might have caused the crash.

The plane left New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport, just across the Hudson River from the city, at 2:30 p.m., about 15 minutes before the crash, according to officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport. But they said they did not where the aircraft was headed.



FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said the plane was apparently not in contact with air traffic controllers; pilots flying small planes by sight are not required to be in contact.

The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to investigate.

Former NTSB director Jim Hall said in a telephone interview he doesn’t understand how a plane could get so close to a New York City building after Sept. 11.

“We’re under a high alert and you would assume that if something like this happened, people would have known about it before it occurred, not after,” Hall said.

[Spark]

Airports operating normally
Mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark, daughter of author Mary Higgins Clark, lives on the 38th floor and was coming home in a cab when she saw the smoke. “Thank goodness I wasn’t at my apartment writing at the time,” she said. She described the building’s residents as a mix of actors, doctors, lawyers and writers, and people with second homes.

Sgt. Claudette Hutchinson, a spokeswoman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., said fighter jets “are airborne over numerous U.S. cities and while every indication is that this is an accident, we see this as a prudent measure at this time.”

However, all three New York City-area airports continued to operate normally, FAA spokesman Jim Peters said. In Washington, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said neither President Bush nor Vice President Dick Cheney was moved to secure locations.

“All indications are that is an unfortunate accident,” said Yolanda Clark, a spokeswoman for Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration. She said there was “no specific or credible intelligence suggesting an imminent threat to the homeland, at this time.”

Memories of Sept. 11
The crash struck fear in a city devastated by the attacks of Sept. 11 five years ago. Sirens echoed across the neighborhood as about 170 firefighters rushed in along with emergency workers and ambulances. Broken glass and debris were strewn around the neighborhood.

“There’s a sense of helplessness,” said Sandy Teller, watching from his apartment a block away. “Cots and gurneys, waiting. It’s a mess.”

The tower was built in the late 1980s and is situated near Sotheby’s auction house. It has 183 apartments, many of which sell for more than $1 million.

Several lower floors are occupied by doctors and administrative offices, as well as guest facilities for family members of patients at the Hospital for Special Surgery, hospital spokeswoman Phyllis Fisher said.

No patients were in the high-rise building and operations at the hospital a block away were not affected, Fisher said.

[DAREALDEAL]

Cory Lidle Dead

sad story....god bless him and his family

[DAREALDEAL]

sad story....god bless him and his family

thx spark