10/11/6 - 9/11/01 upside down - more explosions in NYC.

by **rain** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:13 pm

Family tells of New York plane crash survivor's miracle escape Adam Goldman and Associated Press in New York Friday October 13, 2006 The family of a woman who was left with burns to her back and legs after she fled from the apartment hit by the New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle's plane yesterday said she was lucky to be alive. As investigators sifted through the wreckage of the 40th-floor Manhattan apartment, Marc Benhuri, brother-in-law of Ilana Benhuri, 50, said: "She was in the same room that the nose of the plane hit. I'm telling you it's an absolute miracle that she's alive. I honestly believe that God was sitting on her shoulder Mrs Benhuri was doing paperwork at her desk when she heard the small plane approaching her apartment, Dr Benhuri said. Her housekeeper saw the plane coming towards them and rushed into the other room to get her, he said. The plane crashed into the apartment and burst into flames as they were trying to make their way out, he explained. The women closed the door of the room where the plane hit then closed the front door and ran down a fire escape to safety, Dr Benhuri said. Closing the apartment's front door probably saved their lives,. "She ran fast. That was a miracle. I don't know how she made it," said Mrs Benhuri's husband Parviz. He said his wife was in "good spirits" in hospital. "She has a burn from her lower back all the way to the ankles," Dr Benhuri said. "She's in a lot of pain. She has a very big neck brace." The doctor added that she was conscious and able to talk. "Thank God she's alive," he said. The Benhuris' housekeeper, Eveline Reategue, escaped serious injury. Twenty-two other people, mostly firefighters, have been treated in hospital and released since Wednesday, when Lidle's plane hit the apartment block on the Upper East Side after taking a sightseeing flight around New York. Investigators said the plane's propeller and other debris had been found in the apartment but the bodies of Lidle and his flight instructor, Tyler Stanger, were found in the street below. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1921363,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/usa/st...63,00.html</a>

by **rain** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:57 pm

Four dead in New York plane crash AT least two people were killed when a small plane slammed into a high-rise apartment building today, New York State Governor George Pataki said. "There have been fatalities. But it will take a while to get all the specific numbers and details," he told CNN. NBC television reported that four people had died, two in the building and two found in the street still strapped to their plane seat. There was no immediate confirmation. Mr Pataki said there was nothing to suggest a deliberate act in the crash on Manhattan's Upper East Side that prompted US authorities to scramble fighter jets over several US cities. "Obviously it was a horrendous accident if in fact it turns out to have been an accident, which is currently what the information is leaning towards," he said. <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20567234-1702,00.html">www.news.com.au/story/0,2...02,00.html</a>

by **rain** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:03 pm

Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. investigators are in Manhattan working to determine the cause of a plane crash that killed New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and one other person yesterday afternoon. Two U.S. agencies and makers of the plane and its engine are probing the wreckage in and around the 50-story building on the Upper East Side that the plane crashed into. Officials reassured the public that the crash wasn't an act of terrorism, in a city that was shaken five years ago when terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center. The New York Yankees, who acquired Lidle in a July trade with the Philadelphia Phillies, mourned the pitcher's loss. His death came four days after the Yankees' season ended when they were defeated by the Detroit Tigers in baseball's playoffs. ``I am deeply saddened by this tragic event and I ask everyone to keep Cory, his family and all those affected by this tragedy in your prayers,'' Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman said in a statement on MLB.com, which is owned by Major League Baseball. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday that a flight instructor and student were aboard the single-engine plane for a sightseeing trip. He declined to identify the dead until family members were notified. MLB.com reported that Lidle, 34, was the pilot and had been killed. Lidle was married with a son. `Unbelievable' ``Today was unbelievable news to me. It still hasn't sunk in,'' said Kevin Lidle, Cory Lidle's twin brother, on CNN last night. ``Cory was a normal person. If you were to meet him on the street, you would not know he was a New York Yankee.'' The plane slammed into an upper floor of the Belaire, a 50- story red brick luxury condominium building at East 72nd Street near York Avenue at about 2:42 p.m. local time, the New York Fire Department said. Debris fell to the street and flames shot from windows of the building. The Federal Aviation Administration, Cirrus Design Corp., which made the plane, and Teledyne Technologies Inc., which made the engine, are investigating the crash, National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman Deborah Hersman said in a televised news conference last night. Hersman said 14 firefighters and two police officers were treated for minor injuries. While officials didn't blame weather for the crash, New York City airports were delayed later in the evening because of high winds, according to the FAA. Lidle the Pilot The FAA said on its Web site that Lidle had an ownership application pending for the plane, a Cirrus SR20 registered in Lakeland, Florida. Lidle, who got his pilot's license in February, bought the four-year-old plane in June, Hersman said. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said yesterday that there were no indications of terrorism. ``There is nothing to suggest that anything even remotely like terrorism was involved,'' Bloomberg said. The mayor is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP. Governor George Pataki said yesterday that the FAA was imposing a temporary restriction on general-aviation aircraft, requiring New York-area planes flying at less than 1,500 feet to be under air-traffic control authorization. That restriction was lifted last night, Hersman said. ``This tragic accident brings into sharp focus the need to gain greater control of the airspace around New York,'' Pataki said in an e-mailed statement. Flying Along a River The mayor said the plane left Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, circled the Statue of Liberty, then flew north along the East River. The pilot had been flying in a corridor over the river, FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said yesterday. She said the pilot wasn't required to be in touch with FAA air-traffic controllers. Spokeswoman Laura Brown said planes flying over the East River corridor are required by the FAA to fly below 1,100 feet. The accident spurred memories of the death of Yankees catcher Thurman Munson in 1979. Munson, who was the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1976, died after crashing his Cessna Citation while practicing landings at Akron-Canton Regional Airport in Ohio, according to a report by the National Transportation Safety Board. ``All of baseball is shocked and terribly saddened by the sudden and tragic passing of Cory Lidle,'' Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. Offseason Flights Lidle bought a four-seat Cirrus SR20 built in 2002 that had logged less than 400 hours in the air, the New York Times reported on Sept. 8. The pitcher kept the plane at Teterboro Airport during the season and planned to fly near his home in West Covina, California, during the offseason, the Times said. The incident occurred exactly five years and one month after terrorists flew two planes into New York's World Trade Center, bringing down its landmark twin towers. Almost 3,000 people were killed when al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airliners on Sept. 11, 2001, and crashed them into the trade center, the Pentagon outside Washington and a field in rural Pennsylvania. The Belaire, which has two-bedroom units priced at more than $1 million, was built in 1988, according to the cityrealty.com Web site. The residential tower was modeled after 30 Rockefeller Plaza for a development team headed by William Zeckendorf Jr. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aiUJWWFbxeg8&refer=home">www.bloomberg.com/apps/ne...refer=home</a>

by **nomo** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:32 pm

Coincidence? You decide... <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/461342p-388059c.html">www.nydailynews.com/front...8059c.html</a> 2nd bolt from blue Horror hit home of '97 parade victim BY RICH SCHAPIRO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Cory Lidle's doomed plane didn't just crash into anybody's apartment. It exploded into the empty bedroom of Kathleen Caronna, the Manhattan woman who was critically injured when a balloon knocked part of a lamppost onto her head during the 1997 Thanksgiving Day Parade. The plane's engine was found only feet away from where Caronna sleeps, her relatives told the Daily News yesterday. "She lost her whole bedroom," said a family member, who asked not to be identified. "Everything's devastated. ... She's got nowhere to go." Caronna was on her way home Wednesday when the plane crashed into the Belaire at 2:42p.m. She was extremely shaken after the disaster, telling loved ones she would have been home if the plane had crashed only a few minutes later. Her sister-in-law, Lisa Brown, 43, called Caronna's situation "unbelievable." "How do you go through two major things like this?" Brown asked. "It's spooky. It's very spooky." Caronna was a 33-year-old investment analyst in 1997 when she was critically injured at the Thanksgiving Day parade. She was watching the festivities with her husband and 7-month-old son at 72nd St. and Central Park West when handlers lost control of the six-story-high Cat in the Hat balloon. A section of a streetlight weighing several hundred pounds fell and hit Caronna on the head. Her skull was fractured, and she spent 24 days in a coma before waking up. She later sued Macy's and the city for $395 million, but settled for an undisclosed amount in 2001. Yesterday, investigators escorted Caronna into her charred apartment to survey the damage, her relatives said. She has been living in the high-rise with her husband, Ignazio Massimo, and their 9-year-old son, Alessandro. "This is a tough time for us, and I can't really talk now," her husband said yesterday. Caronna's mother, Helen Brown, said her daughter's apartment is unlivable. The bedroom went up in flames. Asked about her daughter, Brown said, "She's fine."

by **rain** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:52 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Coincidence? You decide...<hr></blockquote> Yankee player jet overshoots runway in California LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A private jet reportedly carrying New York Yankees star player Alex Rodriguez overshot the runway at a Los Angeles area airport on Friday, just days after teammate Cory Lidle died in a small plane crash in New York City "There were seven people on board and no injuries," said Victor Gill, director of public affairs at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, outside Los Angeles. Gill did not have information on the identities of the passengers. But ABC News said that Rodriguez was aboard the jet and had told an ABC reporter by phone that he was doing fine. Officials from the baseball team were not immediately available for comment. The twin-engine jet landed at Burbank on Friday morning and stopped on an emergency pavement beyond the normal runway that is designed to collapse and bring the aircraft to a quick halt. Lidle died Wednesday when the single-engine plane he owned slammed into a residential tower on New York's Upper East Side. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061014/sp_nm/crash_yankee_dc;_ylt=AkmgnWuWRYOLk3vbZdheW_sDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDJjOXUyBHNlYwNtdm5ld3M-">news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061...Ntdm5ld3M-</a> awwww, com'on boys, play nice. it's just a game. right ?

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