Breaking News on the East Side

[Guest Edgy DC]

Breaking news on a small plane hitting a building at 72nd and York.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Some say a helicopter, which seems to make more sense given its location at 72 & York.

Steady stream of emergency vehicles heading up 3rd ave.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's not good. I thought this thread was going to be part of a Meet the Mets singalong.

[metirish]

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, I'll retitle.

[metirish]

Fighter aircraft are being mobilised over several US cities.

[metsmarathon]

ya s'pose the conspiracy theorists'll be all over this one if that apartment building doesn't collapse?

while on a smaller scale, strikingly similar imagery to the last time. thankfully so much less dire, i imagine. and hope.

[Willets Point]

They put the fire out already from what I read.

[metsmarathon]

I figure there’s a 20% chance of a jilted lover figuring on an innovative and unforgettable way to exact revenge on an ex.

[Sandgnat]

Clearly the Bush Administration was behind this crash to scare people about the ongoing terrorist threat so they vote for Republicans in November.

[Frayed Knot]

That building (524 E. 72nd St) is on the south side of 72nd Street between York Ave and the river.
I used to hang around with a girl who lived on that block a bunch of years ago (I think her adress was 520) but haven't been over there in a long time (she's not still there either) and with the way buildings go up and are replaced I had trouble picturing the exact building from the few TV shots I saw.

[Willets Point]

="Yancy Street Gang"]That's not good. I thought this thread was going to be part of a Meet the Mets singalong.

What was the original title of this thread? And why don't we have a Meet the Mets singalong?

[Valadius]

It's near New York Hospital. That's where I was born.

[Benjamin Grimm]

="Willets Point"]What was the original title of this thread? And why don't we have a Meet the Mets singalong?

The original title was "East Side."

Naturally, in my current frame of mind, I saw that and thought, "West Side, everybody's coming down..."

[metirish]

Plane registered to Cory Lidle.

http://www.newsday.com/

[seawolf17]

What does Cory Lidle have to do with this? Confused.

[metirish]

It's his plane,I think...click the newsday link, I have no sound here at work but the caption says it's registered to Lidle.

[metsmarathon]

can't find anything about cory lidle being involved in this crash, but did find the following link:

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060910/SPORTS01/609100378/-1/NEWS01

]Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 Fly guy The Phillies weren't enamored of pitcher Cory Lidle's hobby of flying a four-seat airplane. But now that Lidle is with the Yankees, it's an especially sensitive topic. In 1979, Yankees catcher Thurman Munson died when a plane he was piloting crashed near his home in Canton, Ohio. Lidle earned his pilot's license last offseason, and has insisted his plane is safe. "The whole plane has a parachute on it," he told The New York Times. "Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land. "But, if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly."

also, there's nothing in teh accompanying newsday article about lidle. only this, at 4:37pm:

]The Federal Aviation Administration said it was too early to determine what type of aircraft was involved.

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: Plane registered to Cory Lidle.

WTF?!?!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

WABC Channel 7 confirms that the plane is registered to Lidle.

[metsmarathon]

wow. i'm behind the times.

[Willets Point]

[Valadius]

CNN now reporting Cory Lidle as owner of the plane.

[Centerfield]

It said it in the caption of the newsclip on Newsday (taken from Channel 11 News) but they don't mention it during the clip.

[metsmarathon]

and holy shit.

and, damn, willets, that was wrong.

[Willets Point]

metsmarathon wrote: and holy shit. and, damn, willets, that was wrong.

Didn't know it was for real. Sorry, I'll delete.

[soupcan]

Wow.

[metsmarathon]

well, it was still funny...

m&md are having a pretty tough time with ripping on people lately. they bust on pedro, and turns out he's all kinds of broken. they bust on lidle, and he gets his plane flown into an apartment building, tho hopefully he wasn't flying it.

is it wrong to say "hopefully he wasn't flying it"? i mean, two people are dead no matter what. should i be wishing death on a stranger, as if they are less worthy of life than a celebrity?

begin the philosophical debate. i've gotta go chop some wood. no, really.

[metsmarathon]

and google news still doesnt link to anything plane crash related upon a query of "lidle"

i just find that interesting. i wonder how long it takes for that to register...

[Centerfield]

Lidle confirmed dead.