[Planebeach]

A plane crashed into a building in New York, pilot was Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle.

http://www.cnn.com/

RIP

[admin]

Wow, I just had that flash across the bottom of my Monitor.
It's been confirmed.

[Planebeach]

Its very sad, from reports on Skynews they say that he had engine problem and losing alltitude. He got around one tall building but, coudent get around this one. They say 2 people is dead. RIP

[STARMAN 352ND]

Very sad to hear this about this.Just saw him the other night on TV playing baseball....
My thoughts and prayers go out to the famlies.
JP

[SKUNKY]

Just learned of this terrible news.......Deepest sympathies to all concerned from this member of Red Sox Nation...

[chiefs70]

Condolences to Cory's family, friends and teammates. Godspeed to Cory and wishes of comfort for his family.

[mustangdriver]

That is really too bad. It also gave every one here a shoch when the news broke in with a building in NYC being hit by a plane.

[STARMAN 352ND]

It's so sad i heard his twin brother on the news and he just said that Cory's wife and kid were on a plane to Calif when this happened and he was going to have to tell them the news.
God bless.
JP

[Hoverbug]

As a former CFI, I will say the instructor used extremely poor judgement in allowing the aircraft to go into a dead-end airspace corridor intended for helicopters. In order to avoid an airspace violation, they had to make a 180-turn in a 2000' horizontal space. I've flown the Cirrus before and its not that sporty when it comes to manuevering and its stall characteristics are not as docile as some might think (the spin recovery technique is chute deployment). I strongly suspect that the instructor realized that they weren't going to make the turn in the space available and rather than violating the airpace, pulled it around too tight and stalled it. The irony may be that had Lidle been by himself he probably would have been more concerned with self preservation than an airspace violation, but speaking from personal experience as a CFI, I can say that fear of an airspace violation (and the ruining of an airline career) can overide basic airmanship and common sense.

The FAA also deserves a slap for creating such a dangerous and tempting airspace scenario. Until I looked at the sectional chart this morning, I had no idea that such a wacky VFR corridor even existed. It works for helicopters, but a fixed-wing (especially one moving as fast as a Cirrus) had no business in there.

[STARMAN 352ND]

On a another note it was just reported that Tyler Stanger the flight Instructor has not taken the Cirrus Design's pilot Certification program that pilots must take yearly to be re-certified.
I think they just got in a very tight spot and could not get out with the amount of room they had to work with and fearing airspace violation.At one point they were at 700ft and going 112 mph as there last radar reading.They hit the building at 500 ft i'm sure he stalled it.
If that had been me i would rather save my life and get hit with a violation.
That area is not a good place to be with a fixed wing aircraft.
God bless their souls.
JP