enough said

when some thing happens to a yankee i fell destroy i hope this is false

thats bull ####.... there hasnt been a p[lane crash

There has to been a small aircraft crash into a residential high rise in
Manhattan



http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=150&z=1

Lidle Apparently Killed in Plane Crash
By COLLEEN LONG


NEW YORK (AP) - A small plane carrying New York Yankee Cory Lidle
slammed into a 50-story skyscraper Wednesday, apparently killing the
pitcher and a second person in a crash that rained flaming debris onto
the sidewalks and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack.

A law enforcement official in Washington said Lidle - an avid pilot who
got his flying license during last year's offseason - was aboard the
single-engine aircraft when it crashed into the 30th and 31st floors of
the high-rise on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Mayor Michael Bloomberg
said both people aboard were killed.

It was not clear who was at the controls. But the Washington official,
who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Lidle's passport was found at
the scene.

Federal Aviation Administration records showed the plane was registered
to Lidle, who had repeatedly assured reporters in recent months that
flying was safe and that the Yankees - who lost catcher Thurman Munson
in the 1979 crash of a plane he was piloting - had no reason to worry.

``The flying?'' the 34-year-old Lidle told The Philadelphia Inquirer
this summer. ``I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very
comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.''

The crash came just four days after the Yankees' humiliating elimination
from the playoffs, during which Lidle had been relegated to the bullpen.
In recent days, Lidle had taken abuse from fans on sports talk radio for
saying the team was unprepared.

The law enforcement official said the plane had issued a distress call
before the crash.

The FAA said it was too early to determine what might have caused the
crash. The National Transportation Safety Board sent investigators.

``This is a terrible and shocking tragedy that has stunned the entire
Yankees organization,'' Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said in a
statement. He offered his condolences to Lidle's wife and son.

The crash rattled New Yorkers' nerves five years after the Sept. 11
attacks, abut the FBI and the Homeland Security quickly said there was
no evidence it was anything but an accident. Nevertheless, within 10
minutes of the crash, fighter jets were sent aloft over several cities,
including New York, Washington, Los Angeles and Seattle, Pentagon
officials said.

The plane came through a hazy, cloudy sky and hit 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 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.

``It wasn't until I was halfway home that I started shaking. The whole
memory of an airplane flying into a building and across the street from
your home. It's a little too close to home,'' Sara Green, 40, who lives
across the street from The Belair. ``It crossed my mind that it was
something bigger or the start of something bigger.''

On Sunday, the day after the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs,
Lidle cleaned out his locker at Yankee Stadium and talked about his
interest in flying.

He said he intended to fly back to California in several days and
planned to make a few stops. Lidle disccused the plane crash of John F.
Kennedy Jr. and how he had read the accident report on the National
Transportation Safety Board Web site.

Lidle, acquired from the Philadelphia Phillies on July 30, told The New
York Times last month that his four-seat Cirrus SR20 plane was safe.

``The whole plane has a parachute on it,'' Lidle said. ``Ninety-nine
percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1
percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and
something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes
down slowly.''

Lidle pitched 1 1/3 innings in the fourth and final game of the Division
Series against the Detroit Tigers and gave up three earned runs, but was
not the losing pitcher. He had a 12-10 regular-season record with a 4.85
ERA.

He pitched with the Phillies before coming to the Yankees. Began his
career in 1997 with the Mets. He also pitched for Tampa Bay, Oakland,
Toronto and Cincinnati.

The guarantee language of Lidle's $6.3 million, two-year contract,
signed with the Phillies in November 2004, contained a provision saying
the team could get out of paying the remainder if he were injured or
killed while piloting a plane. Because the regular season is over, Lidle
already had received the full amount in the deal.

After the Yankees' defeat at the hands of the Tigers, Lidle called in to
WFAN sports-talk radio two days before the crash to defend manager Joe
Torre, and said: ``I want to win as much as anybody. But what am I
supposed to do? Go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks.''

Lidle was an outcast among some teammates throughout his career because
he became a replacement player in 1995, when major leaguers were on
strike.

Among the baseball stars killed in plane crashes were Roberto Clemente,
Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, killed Dec. 31, 1972, at age 38 while en
route to Nicaragua to aid earthquake victims; and Munson, the Yankee
catcher killed Aug. 2, 1979, at age 32 in the crash of his plane in
Canton, Ohio.

``It's just sadder than sad,'' said New York Mets pitching coach Rick
Peterson, who was Lidle's pitching coach in Oakland. ``It's horrific.
It's almost unbelievable. It's a surreal moment.''

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 something come across the sky and crash into the building. 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 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.

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.

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.

Despite initial fears of a terrorist attack, all three New York
City-area airports continued to operate normally, FAA spokesman Jim
Peters said. The White House said neither President Bush nor Vice
President Dick Cheney was moved to secure locations.

The Belaire 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.

Associated Press writers Pat Milton, Robert Tanner and Adam Goldman in
New York; Robert Weller in Denver; and Leslie Miller and Lara Jakes
Jordan in Washington contributed to this report.


10/11/06 18:40 © Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
The information contained In this news report may not be published,
broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority
of The Associated Press.

Im also a yankee fan and feel bad what happen in Manhattan with one of
the pitcher from the yankee. They lost the game and now the a pitcher.

i guess it just wasn't his week...has anyone heard what kind of
malfunction it was because it is my understading that he had a
instructor in the cockpit with him?

I almost hesitate to say maybe it's a suiside. I know I'm wrong but
still it seems strange that all this is happening amongst his down fall.

(Lidle was an outcast among some teammates throughout his career because
he became a replacement player in 1995, when major leaguers were on
strike.)

(Among the baseball stars killed in plane crashes were Roberto Clemente,
Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, killed Dec. 31, 1972, at age 38 while en
route to Nicaragua to aid earthquake victims; and Munson, the Yankee
catcher killed Aug. 2, 1979, at age 32 in the crash of his plane in
Canton, Ohio.)

Maybe he wanted to be a martyer.

(The crash came just four days after the Yankees' humiliating
elimination
from the playoffs, during which Lidle had been relegated to the bullpen.
In recent days, Lidle had taken abuse from fans on sports talk radio for
saying the team was unprepared.)

I dunno?

10/11/06

UPSIDE DOWN

90/11/01 or 9/11/01

CRAAAAAZY