Fast news day.....

[Sonny]

CNN is reporting that a plane has crashed into a building in New York City. No further details immediately available.... Here we go again?

[Sonny]

LINK:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/11/D8KMK0O02.html

[yourmom]

probobly some idiots cry for attention on his way out
Hope the cards/mets game is still on

[bste_lax]

They just said that Cory Lidle of the Yankees was either flying the plane or it was his plane.....interesting.

[SLUDoubleDeuce]

All the news outlets are reporting that the FAA has said that the plane was registered to Corey Lidel. Cnn has Joe Torre confirming Lidle was on the plane and ESPN.com is reporting that he was the pilot and is among the 2 confirmed deaths.

[Danny Hogan]

W...T...F

[Brent Burns]

Just visited the New York Yankees web site which reads that Lidle was reportedly dead. His passport was found on the street.

I talked with my co-worker whose husband used to fly visually as well as with instruments. She told me that his flight plan can be easily tracked on the radar. They would be able to find his flight plan. I read that one witness saw the plane leaving Laguardia Airport. I wonder if our resident aviation "expert", mbuff would chime in and explain how finding out who flew the plane works, etc.

[UofMLaxGoalie11]

Just visited the New York Yankees web site which reads that Lidle was reportedly dead. His passport was found on the street.

I talked with my co-worker whose husband used to fly visually as well as with instruments. She told me that his flight plan can be easily tracked on the radar. They would be able to find his flight plan. I read that one witness saw the plane leaving Laguardia Airport. I wonder if our resident aviation "expert", mbuff would chime in and explain how finding out who flew the plane works, etc.

At work I overheard someone who is a pilot and whos son is a military pilot saying that small aircraft will get caught up in the jetwash from wingtip vortices from larger aircraft, causing it to lose control. He said that typically they will not send up a small aircraft until 10 minutes later when the jetwash has cleared. Since this was a small 4-seater, I find it unlikely that they would clear a runway at Laguardia for 10 minutes in order for his little plane to take off. Also, I would expect that there would be a smaller, private airport that he would have a hanger at. I know that here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, there is a private airport near downtown St. Paul that is typically used for small company planes and jets (I actually know a mechanic from there and will be meeting him tonight, so I might ask a few questions), as opposed to the international airport. Granted that this information is far from backed with scientific data, but the general idea that he took off from Laguardia seems unlikely to me.

[Brent Burns]

Since Sonny came up with an appropriate and fitting thread title- "Fast news day...", I was reading an internet article and was commenting on what the witness said about the plane leaving LaGuardia Airport. Like what UofMLaxGoalie11 said that it would be unlikely that the plane flew out of LaGuardia, I am sure the dust will settle eventually when we all have the information all straightened out. The news today on that tragic and unfortunate small plane accident was quite fast and furious...

[whitcd]

I got that the plane took off from Teterboro Airport in northern New Jersey at 2:29 p.m. I got this from CNN.com.

Here is the link
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/11/plane.crash/index.html

[beckner11]

I haven't spent the time to read any of these articles but what happened to the people in the building and the building itself?.....not to take away from the magnitude of a person's death by any means.

[whitcd]

I read that there was hardly anyone in the buildings at the time, and most of the injuries occured outside.

This is what I got from the CNN Article

Bloomberg said two people were in one of the apartments when the plane struck, and both ran out into the hallway. They, along with others in the building, were all safely evacuated, he said.

The fire department said the fire was out by about 4:30 p.m.

Eleven firefighters and five civilians were slightly injured in the accident on Manhattan's East Side, the mayor said.

[laxfan25]

Latest news is that two people died - Cory Lidle and his flight instructor. No one was injured in the building, which sustained very little damage. Lidle had taken off from Teterboro Airport in NJ - th same airport that JFK Jr. operated out of. The injured emergency personnel were primarily slips on wet stairs and pavement.

[mholtz]

I was watching CNN this morning, and they said that something seriously wrong would have had to happen because the plane they were flying was relatively new (that model has been around for 10 years) and it had all the modern safety features including a parachute for the plane. It's actually a handle that the pilot or any passenger can pull that deploys a parachute for the entire plane out the top.

It's worked successfullly 9 times. The most recent happened when the pilot suffered a stroke on takeoff. The passenger pulled it, and everyone survived.

[Danny Hogan]

so is this considered an accident? i havent been able to watch the news in the last couple days.