Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Rare Sports Post
Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle flew his private airplane into the side of a Manhattan high rise at 72nd on the east side. If the engine, avionics and fuel were OK, and he wasn't showing off for a girl, you well might conclude that he took the team's early elimination by the usually horrible Tigers way too hard.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 10:14 PM 
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No word yet on cause of crash but he was flying w/ a flight instructor; he was married; and had a 6 year old daughter.
His wife and daughter were flying to the family home CA @ the time of the crash.
Pilot error or mechanical failure but not suicide.
"In the midst of life..."
His wife and daughter were flying to the family home CA @ the time of the crash.
Pilot error or mechanical failure but not suicide.
"In the midst of life..."
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: 9:58 AM
: 9:58 AM
It might be pilot error abetted by mechanical failure, but there was definitely pilot error. Otherwise a fixed-wing light aircraft wouldn't have been anywhere near a 50-story building. (The glide ratio of most light aircraft is in the vicinity of 20:1 -- 20 feet forward for every one foot down. From 1000 feet above ground (which is much too low to be flying over Manhattan, though I don't know what the regs are there), that would be about 4 miles of gliding, even with a completely dead engine.
My strong suspicion is that this low-time pilot made some particularly bad choices and then found out the hard way why they were bad. He didn't know what he didn't know, and he paid a high price.
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My strong suspicion is that this low-time pilot made some particularly bad choices and then found out the hard way why they were bad. He didn't know what he didn't know, and he paid a high price.
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