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 Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject: Cory Lidle's aircraft crashes into Manhattan high-rise |
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One death reported so far...
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A small airplane crashed into a 50-story residential building on Manhattan's East Side on Wednesday, killing at least one person, the New York City Fire Department said.
Flames were shooting out from several windows midway up the luxury highrise in a residential neighborhood.
The Federal Aviation Administration described the plane as a "general aviation" fixed-wing aircraft flying under visual flight rules, meaning a pilot was flying by visual landmarks.
The plane hit the Belaire Condominiums, built in 1989 at 524 E. 72nd Street near the East River. More than 150 firefighters are on scene of a four-alarm fire in the building.
There was no word on casualties. NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) said it had put fighter aircraft into the air over numerous U.S. cities, though they said they had no reason to believe the event in New York was anything more than an accident, sources told CNN's Barbara Starr. It did the same thing after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"I have no idea where this thing (the plane) came from," said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs New York area airports.
"We haven't heard from any of our facilities that anything's missing." New York City government source told CNN there are "no indications of terrorism."
The FAA placed a one-mile flight restriction around the site of the crash, but New York area airports were not affected.
It's unclear if the crash was a result of terrorism. A senior U.S. official in Washington said the administration was waiting for more information.
"The fire was raging out of two windows," witness Sarah Steiner told CNN. "It looks like the plane just flew into someone's living room."
Steiner said fires were burning on the ground. "It looks like the plane just flew into someone's living room there." (Watch the orange flames ravage the apartment -- 1:50)
"It looks as if the aircraft didn't go into the building but fell down," she said. "It may be part of the debris burning on the ground."
Video from the scene shows at least three apartments in the high-rise fully engulfed in flames. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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FOX just said 2 people dead, and some trapped on the floors above the fire. Looks like a genuine accident this time, not something more sinister.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Holy Shit....The plane was registered to Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle.....according to FOX and the AP he was piloting it.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Stuart wrote: |
| Holy Shit....The plane was registered to Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle.....according to FOX and the AP he was piloting it. |
4 deaths so far...
Tragic.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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| It's now being reported that Cory's passport was found among the wreckage in the street. |
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B. O. N. D.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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Cory Lidle??? This is fucking unreal. My God... 
As of now I am suspending my MFY hatred. It's just horrible. I wonder who he was flying with???
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| They think he was the only one on board.. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Brings back memories of Thurman Munson. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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Do you think Brian Cashman is totally pissed because he has to fill yet another rotation spot this offseason? This can't help the Diamondbacks...
But just imagine Cashman on the phone offering Lidle's corpse and $$$$ for Livan Hernandez or something... Garigiola Jr. would have taken it. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Lee, that's a shitty thing to say, even in jest. Think about what you write before you write it. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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| lee mellon wrote: |
Do you think Brian Cashman is totally pissed because he has to fill yet another rotation spot this offseason? This can't help the Diamondbacks...
But just imagine Cashman on the phone offering Lidle's corpse and $$$$ for Livan Hernandez or something... Garigiola Jr. would have taken it. |
This board sails verrry close to "the line" at times, but thats just a flatout bullshit post right now.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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Cory leaves behind his wife, Melanie Varela whom he married on 1/7/97, and his 6-year old son, Christopher Taylor Lidle.
Some things transcend baseball. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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You said it, TAP.
I can't even imagine going through, not only what Cory went through, but his family, friends, teammates are going through.
And, obviously not comparable to 9/11, it sure brings back alot of that fear, stress, horror that NYers have been through as well.
You've got to feel for them all.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Lee.. Was that supposed to be a f'in joke.. FU dude... Hes got a 6 year old whose daddy isnt coming home... |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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While agreeing the comment in question went too far, I must admit my second thought - after "WTF? OMG!" - was not for his family or friends, but "That thins out the free-agent market even further." However, truth is, I'm fairly sure none of us knew Lidle as a person, only as a baseball player, and that will inevitably color our responses. To be blunt, why should Lidle's family get more sympathy than those of anyone else who died in an accident, anywhere today?
[If you want to hear really sick comments, head over to Fark. Though gotta confess, I laughed at "Bush is planning to attack the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in response."]
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| It's to be expected at fark. Where else can people find humor from pictures taken from 9-11? |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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Reports indicated that the plane took off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey around 2:30 p.m. ET, crashing into the building roughly 15 minutes later.
I have to wonder how many solo flights Cory had clocked prior to today. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Now Foxnews.com is reporting that Cory was flying with his instructor and that it isn't yet clear whether it was Cory or his instructor at the controls of the aircraft. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I was listening in the car to Gambo and Ash and some guy called in and said they had some kind of simulation on CNN and that the plane dropped from 1800 ft to 400 ft. in the space of about a minute, which would indicate some kind of mechanical failure. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| very sad ... my prayers go out to the family |
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:04 am Post subject: |
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Lidle's Arizona connections...
| Joseph A. Reaves / The Arizona Republic wrote: |
Few probably remember it, but Cory Lidle, the Yankees pitcher who died Wednesday in a plane crash in Manhattan, was the seventh pick of the Diamondbacks in the 1997 expansion draft.
Or that one of the reasons he bought the plane he died in was so he could fly to Arizona to play golf.
The right-handed pitcher, who was traded from Philadelphia to the Yankees in July, told New York reporters Monday that he planned to fly to California on Wednesday. He said the trip would take about 15 hours of flying time and he planned to make at least two stops, including one in Arizona.
"I just remember he was good guy," said former Diamondbacks General Manager Joe Garagiola Jr., who was in Oakland at the American League playoffs in his job as senior vice president for Major League Baseball.
Garagiola made Lidle the Diamondbacks' No. 7 pick in the expansion draft and the pitcher was in the audience at the public rally at Phoenix Symphony Hall Terrace when his name was called.
"He had a low-key personality, but he was excited to be a part of the whole baseball history," Garagiola said.
Lidle was dragged on stage for an impromptu news conference and was asked about Joel Adamson, a Brewers pitcher drafted right after him.
"Never heard of him," Lidle said as the crowd burst into laughter.
Lidle, a high school teammate of Yankees slugger Jason Giambi, had a bad shoulder and never pitched at the big-league level in the Diamondbacks' 1998 inaugural season. He became the answer to a trivia question when the Tampa Bay Devil Rays claimed him on waivers after the season.
He was the first player to be on the rosters of both expansion teams.
Last month, Lidle told the New York Times he decided to get his pilot's license while on a trip to Arizona to visit an old friend, former catcher Tom Wilson, who played with Lidle on the A's in 2001 and the Blue Jays in 2003.
Wilson had a friend who was a pilot and introduced him to Lidle, who was enthralled at how quickly he could get around if he could fly.
"It's basically to bring things a little closer to reach," he told the Times. "Now, I can fly to Pebble Beach if I want, and instead of driving there for five hours, I can fly there in an hour and 45 minutes. I can go to Arizona to golf, or Vegas, or wherever." |
FULL ARTICLE HERE
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| This Alan Schwartz article just a little too spooky perhaps, at least for those that believe there are no coincidences. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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Here's more spooky shit:
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4668384
On Tuesday, a guy that was supposed to be on teh plane with Lidle that day died in his own plane crash. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, that should be in Final Destination 4. Creepy.
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Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal, a dentist to the rich and famous, has filed a $7 million lawsuit against the estate of late New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, claiming his home was destroyed when the ballplayer's small airplane crashed into his Mahattan apartment building last October.
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