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Cory Lidle killed in plane crash in NYC?

cardfan07cardfan07 Posts: 680 ✭✭
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Just reported on ESPN. He was the pilot of the plane. Weird.
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Holy crap. I was listening to that whole story unfold on my drive back from north jersey image

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  • ToppsCo1lectorToppsCo1lector Posts: 2,633
    Are you serious? No way.
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  • cardfan07cardfan07 Posts: 680 ✭✭
    On tv and on espn.com.
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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Radio station here is confirming it's Lidle.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • thegemmintmanthegemmintman Posts: 3,101 ✭✭
    Oh my God! He just pitched in that game 4.
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    Holy cow...

  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    yep.. someone found his passport on the street below where the plane crashed..
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Holy $hit ..... I did not know he was a pilot. Witnesses say it looked like the plane was struggling to turn back to the airport ..... e-gads

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  • thegemmintmanthegemmintman Posts: 3,101 ✭✭
    They're saying he got his pilot's license about a year ago. Life is so fragile, my God.
  • kcballboykcballboy Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭
    Wow. Didn't see that coming. Thoughts go out to his family.
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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Actually all they have said was that it was his plane. it has not been officially confirmed yet.

    I know it does not look good for him but until they officially confirm it...............

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    well, if there is hope then lets hope. Sure does not look good, especially if someone found a passport at the scene.

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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,027 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OMG image
  • bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
    I passed that area literally a couple of hours ago on my way back from the city. What a tragedy.
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Awful news
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭


    << <i>A law enforcement official in Washington said Lidle — an avid pilot who got his flying license during last year's offseason — was aboard the single-engine aircraft when it crashed into the 30th and 31st floors of the high-rise on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said both people aboard were killed.

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    I am speechless. I heard the story about a plane hitting the building this afternoon, but just now heard it was Lidle's plane.
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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    its official according to cnn.com.. he was the only person aboard the plane..
    ·p_A·
  • kuhlmannkuhlmann Posts: 3,326 ✭✭
    my wife went to south hills high school and melanie is a very good freind of hers. this is a sh$tty day!

    i feel for malanie and christopher his 6 year old son.. i also am gonna fell really bad for her when her plane lands and the freaking media circus attacks her.

    prayers go out for her and her son..
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    I can't believe he was flying by himself with only one year of schooling. Thought you needed a couple hundred hours prior to flying solo.

    Such a tragic death. Thoughts and prayers go out to his family image
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    I think he was with his instructor at the time.

    RIP image profoundly sad for a young family with everything in the world to live for image

    incredibly sad accident.

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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I believe he was with his flying instructor. Mayor Bloomberg went on TV and during the conference confirmed that there were two souls aboard the plane.

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  • RANDYMOSS84RANDYMOSS84 Posts: 1,980
    yuck such a sad situation, at first i woke up and turn espn to see a plane in another building in NEW YORK, and was angry but then sad when i saw it was a accident and a american that shouldn't be dead. RIP to Cory and his instructor and may their familes get through this situation
  • RANDYMOSS84RANDYMOSS84 Posts: 1,980
    wow i just saw his house which is in glendora and my friend lives 2 houses next door to him. WOW never knew that... so sad
  • TheGuyTheGuy Posts: 68 ✭✭
    That must've been a sad situation for him, but that was awful.
    "Sometimes we don't know just what to do when adversity takes over." -- Cannonball Adderley
  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's looking like Lidle tried to make a turn too fast over the East River, ran out of room, and lost control. Not much the instructor pilot could do about it.
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  • bri2327bri2327 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭
    Lidle was killed when his plane crashed into a building in NYC on 10/11/06

    turn the 10/11/06 upside down now and see how it reads.....not exact, but close enough to give ya a chill.
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    RIP; a tragic accident.
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