Comments on: Aircraft Crashes into NYC Building – Owned by Yankee Pitcher Cory Lidle

By: Stormy Dragon

Stormy Dragon — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:59:50 +0000

>A sidebar to the story notes that many athletes
>have been killed in airplane crashes:

Obviously the TSA needs to begin profiling professional atheletes.

By: Ugh

Ugh — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:45:22 +0000

One of the biggest problems in civil aviation is VFR (visual flight rating, IIRC) pilots flying into IFR (instrument flight rating, again IIRC) weather. If you're certified IFR, you know how to fly the plane without being able to see outside (e.g., through bad weather, fog, clouds, at night), but VFR goes only on sight, which if you lose you can end up in a complete free fall and not even know it until it's too late (I believe this is what happened to JFK Jr.).

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:14:42 +0000

According to weather.com, 60 and light rain right now. Pictures from earlier looked cloudy.

By: Ugh

Ugh — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:27:09 +0000

He was flying on VFR, anyone know if it was foggy or cloudy in NYC today?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:26:40 +0000

Davey Allison was indeed killed in a helicopter crash after it took off at the infield at Talladega if I remember correctly. I really haven't followed NASCAR much since he died - I was a Kulwicki fan before I was an Allison fan too. Allison's wife was from the same town that is my dad's hometown. He came in to the local dirt track for the charity race the Shriners had Memorial Day weekend - flew in by private plane to the local airport (I was in HS with the daughter of the airport administrator at the time.) He also donated auction items the years he couldn't make that race and his father-in-law (the long time police chief of the college in my dad's hometown) donated a jacket Davey had given him after Davey's death for a charity fundraiser.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:21:35 +0000

Hey, if Joe Torre didn't feel the need to commit seppuku by airplane, I think Ridle should've been off the hook as well.

Very unfortunate for him, not to mention whoever's apartment he smashed into.

By: ranman

ranman — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:21:34 +0000

I hope this was an accident, but I doubt it. The NTSB will want to determine his emotional state prior to the crash, did he have a connection to anyone in the building, who was in control of the aircraft at the time of impact, was he on any medication or under medical care. This crash may involve mechanical failure, however this type of aircraft is very reliable so it's a mystery. I had "aviation accident investigating" in college and my gut feeling is that this was no accident. Lock-up your planes because the copycats are watching the news.

By: Bandit

Bandit — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:04:46 +0000

His words and actions had seemed pretty unstable for months. His pitching sucked too.

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Conservative Culture » Plane Crashes into NYC Building — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:00:21 +0000

[...] I agree with Outside the Beltway… it is probably no more than an accident as the plane isn’t much of a threat. But 9/11 makes us second guess everything. Feedbacks on this entry via RSS 2.0 Please leave a Comment or discuss via Trackback! [...]

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