Air Craft Crash

[martymas]

hi all im watching CNN

and it reprts a small fixed wing aircraft crashed into a highrise

building in new york city

any one here from new york

and is there any civilian casualtys

or any more info

god i hope there arnt many people hurt or dead

marty

[jsbowen]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/11/plane.crash/index.html

Looks like the building is full of condos. No word on any casualties, yet.

[TheTerrorist_75]

4 dead so far. The plane belonged to NY Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle. He was supposedly flying home to Florida.

[martymas]

yes they found mr lidels passport

in the street

i get stressed when

there are deaths

tho in a case like this deaths are inevitable

god im praying for their familys

4 dead. so far i hope there wasent any more

marty

[Besttechie]

I was at school and I heard a ton of police, fire, and ambulance sirens... They must have all been going there. I didn't know until I got in the car to go home that something happened.

B

[Chappy]

From what I've heard, they were reporting they were having "Fuel Difficulties" before the accident, and that witnesses have said it appears they were trying to weave in and out of the buildings.

I believe they were trying to reach the river for a water ditching because the engine had failed due to a fuel delivery problem, couldn't maintain altitude to reach it so they tried to dodge buildings to get there and couldn't quite make it. The crash was a couple of blocks away from the open river and I think they just finally ran out of airspeed to control the aircraft anymore, and hit the building.

As a pilot, that's what I would try to do if I knew I couldn't make an airport and there was a river close by. Of course, landing on a stretch of open road would be much better, but hey...this is New York we're talking about...there ARE no open roads.

As they lost altitude without power and got lower than the buildings, they'd have to manouver around them and that of course slows the plane even more to do that, until it finally doesn't have the airspeed to allow the flight control surfaces to have any effect. Then a stall is imminent, but either way they didn't have a chance anymore...too bad.