Thoughts on NYC Plane Crash
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howeirdA couple of unrelated thoughts popped up when i saw the news story about Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle's plane crashing into a high-rise apartment building in NYC.
The first one was WTF is the FAA and Homeland Insecurity doing, allowing any aircraft to fly at that altitude anywhere near Manhattan?
The second is why is everyone crying over the guy who crashed his plane, while there has not been word one about the victims whose high-priced homes have been made into toast because some sports star wanted a joy ride? Even if nobody was killed, at least three people/families are homeless, and probably a dozen more need to move out due to water and smoke damage. Idiot media once again picks the easy story to tell, and ignores the real story.
And one wonders anyway about a player who has gone through 7 teams in 9 years.
Lidle pitched with the Philadelphia Phillies before coming to the Yankees. He began his career in 1997 with the New York Mets and also pitched for Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Oakland A's, Toronto Blue Jays and Cincinnati Reds
The first one was WTF is the FAA and Homeland Insecurity doing, allowing any aircraft to fly at that altitude anywhere near Manhattan?
The second is why is everyone crying over the guy who crashed his plane, while there has not been word one about the victims whose high-priced homes have been made into toast because some sports star wanted a joy ride? Even if nobody was killed, at least three people/families are homeless, and probably a dozen more need to move out due to water and smoke damage. Idiot media once again picks the easy story to tell, and ignores the real story.
And one wonders anyway about a player who has gone through 7 teams in 9 years.
Lidle pitched with the Philadelphia Phillies before coming to the Yankees. He began his career in 1997 with the New York Mets and also pitched for Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Oakland A's, Toronto Blue Jays and Cincinnati Reds
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Date: 2006-10-12 10:41 pm (UTC)"Police confirmed today that the instructor was Tyler Stanger, who had traveled to New York from California to work on instrument training exercises with Mr. Lidle. "
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Date: 2006-10-12 10:56 pm (UTC)I'm not a pilot, but I've been on several instrument flights with friends and relatives who are, three of whom are based in NYC, so I'll be asking them their opinion. But from what I know already from that small experience is one doesn't train on instruments on the route these guys were flying.
Maybe "joyride" is too strong a word, if it implies recklessness. Let's just say the circumstances tell me it was a pleasure flight, for sightseeing. The circumstances as I understand them include the fact that Lidle was planning on flying to California after the playoffs, and this time of year some of that flight might require an instrument-rated pilot on board. He may very well have been taking a quick buzz around NYC en route, but that part of the flight would have been purely for the fun of it. It's more likely, since Lidle was new to NYC, that his instructor decided to give him the Grand Tour, since Lidle would have been living in NYC if he stayed with the Yankees.