ฺีPlane hits apartment building in NYC

[chera]

A plane has hit the 20th floor of an apartment building on 72E street in New York City.  4 blocks worth of windows are in flames.

Love and peace to all.

[chera]

The plane hit the building sometime this afternoon (11/10/06).  It was a small 2-engine propeller plane with a capacity of no more than 4 people.  

The building hit was a 50 storey apartment (the Bel-Air) near the river.  The 20th floor of the building was hit.

The fire seems to be out - 2 window blocks of the building have raging flames, compared to 4 earlier.  The building has not yet collapsed.  

No signs so far that it was terrorism.  The governor says it was an accident.  No shutdown of US air-traffic so far.

[daigong]

And it's been confirmed the pilot is NY Yankees pitcher Corey Lidle going home to his family. RIP

[Jsmurf]

rest in peace...

[MikMix04]

R.I.P. . thats kinda sad, goin home to see his family... ::sigh:: ... no disrespect to Lidel but at least it wasn't a terrorist attack.

[Mugen]

OMFG!! ARE U SERIOUS!!! SHIT!

[Saburo]

I've been reading bits and pieces on blog sites.

He was traded to the New York Yankees from the Philadelphia Phillies this past July.  Was a good pitcher, not a star but reliable.  Reports say the Phillies weren't thrilled with his piloting hobby.  There are conflicting reports: four people or two people on board dead?  Perhaps just him and an instructor.  Now it's said he was the sole person on the plane.  Also a distress signal before the crash.

A famous NY Yankee catcher, Thurman Munson, died in a plane crash in 1979 while he was practicing touch-and-go landings.  And it didn't need to be a name athlete for New Yorkers to get that terrorist chill all over again.

I might also add that this incident has given rise to a LOT of bad judgment from Internet users who have used the notion of "free speech" to spout some rotten "jokes" which reflect some sort of anti-Yankee sentiment.  Yeah we got free speech and all but I pray with all my heart that those people get a brand of unimaginable, burning-shit diarrhea that will inspire the darkest pits of hell.

[JFC]

One of Corey Lidle's Baseball cards -


Corey Lidle's Stats (@ Baseball-Reference.com)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lidleco01.shtml

RIP.

[thelastangel]

Corey Lidle R.I.P - Sad news for those you have left behind.
 
Maybe I read this thread too fast...but I do not see anyone asking how the hell could this possibly happen in NYC after 9/11.  You would think that air traffic control would be monitoring any low flying aircraft and questioning if the pilot should be so close to buildiings.  Maybe I misunderstood how and why this plane was allowed to be so dangerously close to casuing this type of disaster/tragedy.

[JTRIX]

here is a Wikipedia news about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_11%2C_2006_New_York_City_plane_crash

R.I.P. Corey Lidle

[leonheartx]

"Twenty-one people have been confirmed injured, with 11 of those being firefighters"

that was from the wiki link. such sad news

[Saburo]

Alan Schwarz of ESPN.com remembers the time Cory Lidle offered to take him flying: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=schwarz_alan&id=2622245

[daigong]

This is even weirder...related to the crash:

A woman whose apartment was burned in the high-rise crash of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle's plane was the victim of another frightening, bizarre and high-profile Manhattan accident years earlier, when a lamppost knocked over by a parade float seriously injured her.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003303980_hittwice14.html

Listening to Bobby V on ESPN Radio, the chance of that happening is 1 in 4 Billion or something.