More Updates on Cory Lidle and Manhattan Condo Crash…
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Yahoo has picked up an Updated Report by Colleen Long of AP:
The main points of this update are these;
1. The single-engine aircraft… plowed into the 30th and 31st floors of the condominium high-rise on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
2. Lidle’s passport was found on the street, according to a federal official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. It was not immediately clear who was at the controls and who was the second person aboard. There was no official confirmation of Lidle’s death from city officials.
3. The craft took off from New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport at 2:21 p.m. and was in the air for about 20 minutes, authorities said. Bloomberg said Lidle and his flying companion were sightseeing and were taking a route that took them over the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building.
The FAA said it was too early to determine what might have caused the crash.
How the plane managed to penetrate airspace over one of the most densely packed sections of New York City was not clear. The plane was unusual in that it was equipped with a parachute in case of engine failure, but there was no sign the chute was used.
4. Former NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board] director Jim Hall said in a telephone interview he does not understand how a plane could get so close to a New York City building after Sept. 11.
“We’re under a high alert and you would assume that if something like this happened, people would have known about it before it occurred, not after,” Hall said.
5. The Belaire [the Condo] was built in the late 1980s and is situated near Sotheby’s auction house. It has 183 apartments, many of which sell for more than $1 million.
Several lower floors are occupied by doctors and administrative offices, as well as guest facilities for family members of patients at the Hospital for Special Surgery, hospital spokeswoman Phyllis Fisher said. No patients were in the high-rise, Fisher said.
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