BREAKING NEWS: BUILDING ON FIRE IN MANHATTAN

by What-A-Coincidence 33 Replies latest jw friends

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  Leolaia

  Wow, check out this article about Cory Lidle just last month:

  Fly guy

  The Phillies weren't enamored of pitcher Cory Lidle's hobby of flying a four-seat airplane.

  But now that Lidle is with the Yankees, it's an especially sensitive topic.

  In 1979, Yankees catcher Thurman Munson died when a plane he was piloting crashed near his home in Canton, Ohio. Lidle earned his pilot's license last offseason, and has insisted his plane is safe.

  "The whole plane has a parachute on it," he told The New York Times. "Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land.

  "But, if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly."

  http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060910/SPORTS01/609100378/1002/SPORTS
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  juni

  It was the Yankee pitcher Corey Lidle who flew his plane using VFR (visual flight rules) when it was hazy, drizzly and overcast. In other words he should've been flying IFR (instrument flight rules) Flew into apt. building on the lower East side into the 40th floor. Apt. was empty that he hit. Sounds like he was a cocky guy. No time for a parachute to lower the plane when you hit a bldg.

  He was a low time pilot.

  This is the latest as of 4:11 Central Time

  Juni
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  AK - Jeff

  Was he IFR qualified? Probably not. Shame on him for flying in those conditions then.

  Jeff
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  LovesDubs

  They dont know who was flying the plane.
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  juni

  No Jeff, he wasn't.

  He was flying south on the East River corridor and for some reason he went 1/2 block in toward Manhattan and hit the apt. bldg.

  Still unclear about how many died. Mayor said 2 now. Just have to wait.

  Lovesdubs - You're right. More info keeps coming out. But the plane was registered to him.
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  joe_black

  Well, in my opinion, he wasn't a very good pitcher, and I guess you could say not a very good pilot either, lol.
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  thecarpenter

  oooh, got a chill from that comment!
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  jaguarbass

  The news says its a pitcher for the yankees.
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  chiddy

  The funny thing was that here in the UK on sky and CNN they kept the caption going that the fire was under control but it was blazing like hell!, just goes to show what they did not tell us about 9/11
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  chiddy

  Another comment why and how was a shit for brains basebull (sic) player flying a ruddy plane over the ****ing Big Apple? You could not make it up! Staggering, beyond belief!