BREAKING NEWS: Plane crash into NYC building

[GalvestonDuck]

Of course, people are already hitting Ebay like crazy, buying (and selling) Lidle's autographed baseball cards.

[Josephine96]

Espn reports Lidle is "confirmed dead"..

[rainstorm]

'The whole plane has a parachute on it,' Cory Lidle told the NY TIMES last month. 'Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if youÕre up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.'

http://www.drudgereport.com

[Brent]

'The whole plane has a parachute on it,' Cory Lidle told the NY TIMES last month. 'Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if youÕre up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.'

http://www.drudgereport.com

Whoops.

[rainstorm]

thats a rather bizarre statement. i cant imagine why he would think that

[Stratosphere747]

Let's not waste time trying to cast asperions against someone that just lost their life...

Thank goodness for Drudge...

[senorpepr]

Okay... I have to throw this in here.

NBC 10 has also learned that Lidle was not instrument rated to fly the plane and could only fly when visibility was good. It was an overcast day in Manhattan.

First... good visibility and overcast skies should not be compared. What NBC reported was some unresearched news. They need to do a better job on their reporting, in my opinion.

Yes, Lidle was VFR (visual flight rules) rated only. That means he can only fly when the visibility is above 5 miles and the ceiling (as defined as the lowest broken or overcast deck [covering at least 50% of the sky]) is above 3,000 feet.

Now, with that said, in NBC's report, the wording made it sound like any overcast day would be illegal for him to fly. That is not true. There could be an overcast deck at 5,000 feet--he would still be legal to fly VFR.

The truth: visibility was in the VFR category--8 miles. However, the ceiling was in the MVFR (marginal visual flight rules) category--a broken deck at 1,500 feet and an overcast deck at 2,000 feet.

Currently, however, conditions have decreased to IFR (instrument flight rules) since rain, coupled with light fog, has decreased the visibility to 2 miles.

[fwbbreeze]

thats a rather bizarre statement. i cant imagine why he would think that

ummm perhaps because it does.....

The SR-20 will also be fitted standard with a Ballistic Recovery System (BRS) parachute (a first for a certificated production aircraft), while various energy absorbing features have been designed into the airframe to reduce deceleration loads and increase its ability to absorb energy in the event of an impact.

http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=167

why dont we do a little research before we cast accusations and doubt

fwbbreeze

[Stephanie]

I would think that a pilot would know what they are talking about when it comes to planes and equipment. Perhaps something else went wrong.

What a tragedy! RIP Corey and my prayers are going out to his family.

[JonathanBelles]

im thinking it was fog, wind, or lack of experince

[senorpepr]

im thinking it was fog, wind, or lack of experince

As a mentioned in an earlier post, the visibility at the time of the accident was 8 miles. WMO guidelines states that if the visibility is equal to or greater than 7 miles (10km), the visibility is considered unlimited. In this case, fog was definately not an issue.

As for wind, observations indicated an east-northeasterly wind at 10-13KT. In this case, wind was definately not an issue.

Since the winds were light, ground turbulence and building-induced ground turbulence can be ruled out.

[Nimbus]

How Ironic Cory Lidle is almost an anagram for "Ray Collide".

[Brent]

FAA bans fixed-wing planes from N.Y. path
Yankee's crash promoted airspace restriction on East River corridor

Associated Press
Updated: 1 minute ago

NEW YORK - Small fixed-wing planes have been banned from flying along the East River in New York City unless the pilot is in contact with air traffic control, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15247117/