Small plane hits building in NYC on the UES- Page 4

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 5:21pm

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?verified=1&NNumbertxt=929CD

[FrancisGumm]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 5:24pm

ch 7 just said that he has a wife and a 6yr old son and they are currently on a plane so they may not know about what happend

[Liverpool]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 5:27pm

Mayor Bloomberg just said 2 people on the plane, a flight instructor and a student pilot with 75 hours experience.


(the city obviously can't release names yet)

[new_philosophy_girl]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 5:41pm

Just heard confirmation that Lidle was indeed killed on the plane. I'm so sad. I loved him when he was on the Phillies. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the families of all the other victims...

EDIT: Got the confirmation from ABCnews.com.

Updated On: 10/11/06 at 05:41 PM

[Katecab99]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 5:45pm

cory lidle...no way

[shiksa_goddess]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 6:00pm

How scary and sad!

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 6:28pm

I go to school a few blocks away and we got let out just as it happened and so a bunch of people from my school saw it happen which was scary, but we were far enough away that there wasn't smoke where we were or anything. There were crowds all along the street though trying to figure out what had happened...just really sad. We didn't know how big of a deal it was at the time, but I just got home and seeing it all over the news is weird.

ETA: Just realized that my friend's dad (a friend who goes to my school) is doing the 6 o clock news. That's weird because all the parents at my school were so worried.

Updated On: 10/11/06 at 06:28 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 7:47pm

A woman I work very closely with lives in that building, on a high floor. I just found out she was away this afternoon.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 7:52pm

His wife traveled today by commercial jet

All the money in the world could not get me into one of those small private planes

He was on top of the world a month ago - being traded to a contender

Kind of puts all the Torre nonsense into perspective

Updated On: 10/11/06 at 07:52 PM

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 8:00pm

The Yankees message boards were terrible earlier.

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:00pm

It will be interesting to find out what the final cause of the accident it.

Didn't they eventually decide JFK Jr crashed because he thought the laws of physics didn't apply to him?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:11pm

No.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:13pm

"Didn't they eventually decide JFK Jr crashed because he thought the laws of physics didn't apply to him?"

well, he was a kennedy, so really, no laws applied to him.

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:13pm

Yea... pretty certain they did.

Joey, you ever think of moving into the twentieth floor of a build on the UES? Maybe you should

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:16pm

such good Christian comments, Draco.

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:20pm

Here's a deal: If you don't call me Christian, I won't call you Hetero.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:22pm

oh good, you got rid of that fug avatar draco, that guy was wrecked.

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:24pm

yea, jrb_actor's avatar inspired me to go find that puking pumpin thing I had seen before.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:35pm

draco = RodneyK

[actor]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:39pm

The news is constantly changing and has new information almost every minute.
Article on Yahoo News

[LionessInWinter]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 10:54pm

My office is across the street from Cornell at 71st and York. 71st St is always pretty loud outside our window with traffic and trash trucks picking up from our building, but all of a sudden a co-worker and I realize at the same time that it was getting louder with lots of sirens. Someone else mentioned they thought they smelled smoke, which none of the others did oddly. All of a sudden another co-worker bursts in the door and yells, "Did you see what's going on?!" She tells us about the fire and the plane (which we don't believe at first) and we run outside on a rooftop playground at the end of the hall and see a couple of helicopters circling the area and smoke from that building. We could only see the top 20 floors or so.

When I left, York Ave for as far as I could see north and at least to 66th or so was shut down and looked like a parking lot for NYPD/FDNY. It was like a mini 9/11. I never once thought it was terrorism. Unlikely they'd go for an apt building on the UES. They had 1st Ave closed down at least from about 60th north to I don't know where. It was too far for me to tell. I take the 66 crosstown bus to Lincoln Center for the subway (and tonight for the NYFF), but it didn't seem to be running in my direction so I walked to the subway at Lex. Oddly it seemed to be going the other direction from at least the Lincoln Ctr area, but don't know to where. Traffic was a zoo on the east side.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 10/11/06 at 11:42pm

I never thought terrorism, either. But when I was standing in the street watching the flames shoot out of the building, and listening to the choppers overhead and all of the sirens, it was impossible not to remember 9/11. And it occurred to me how on that morning when I first saw the news and only one tower had been hit, I also thought, "wow...some dufus hit a building". Still, although this afternoon was upsetting, I never felt threatened.

[DracoMalfoy]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 9:02am

PalJoey... what the hell are you ranting about? Why don't you go find some liberal ranting to copy paste into to long-ass post that nobody really gives a damn about? That does seem to be the only thing you have to do with your life. :)


Iflit... did you actually think the word, dufus? :)

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 9:50am

Will do, Rodney.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 10/12/06 at 2:58pm

Alec Baldwin demanding to be let through the closed streets.