plane crash

[GT40_GearHead]

new york plane crash!!!

what do you guys know about it

any one from there ???

[Crimson Sky]

Small fixed wing aircraft crashed into the 41st floor of a residential high rise building--fire is under control, it is believed to be a terrible accident at this point. I live not far away from the incident, watching it on local news.

[GT40_GearHead]

did anyone got hurt/dead :(

for a sec 9-11 flashed in front of my eyes

[Crimson Sky]

Two confirmed dead at this point :(

[GT40_GearHead]

may they rest in peace....


did they say anything about the cause of the crash

[tybrenis]

My friend just IMed me about this. It was the private plane of ex-Phillies player Corey Lidle. 4 people confirmed dead, I believe.

[DaveW]

That's some messed up **** right there. Bet it's tommorow's headline on every paper, even if there's another Tsunami in Asia.

-Dave

[tybrenis]

Roger that, Dave. That's the media for you. And thats America. We don't care when thousands of people die every day from hunger, disease, and violence. But one of our celebrities gets killed twixe a year, wow. Thats a HUGE deal.

I'm not saying it isn't an awful shame that those people in the plane died. I'm saying its a shame we don't really care about much else.

[gaz_the_chav]

Man that really has upset me. I don't know about any of you guys but I will certainly have a prayer in my head for the victims and the families of that plane crash tonite. I live in england yet I have not heard about it yet (until I read this.)

-gaz

[DaveW]

Roger that, Dave. That's the media for you. And thats America. We don't care when thousands of people die every day from hunger, disease, and violence. But one of our celebrities gets killed twixe a year, wow. Thats a HUGE deal.

I'm not saying it isn't an awful shame that those people in the plane died. I'm saying its a shame we don't really care about much else.

Hell, it's not just America. We're a little American bitch country over here now. I promise you it will be all over our newspapers too.

-Dave

[Crimson Sky]

You folks have to understand that being a New Yorker who witnessed 911 up close and very personal, we take it pretty seriously when a plane crashes into a building. It's a huge ****ing deal, at least until we get the details of whats going on. My windows rattled from this explosion.

[gaz_the_chav]

I quite agree I think the UK in general look upto America as an Older Brother as such. I think that all our countries need to sort themselves out. (But saying that I am no poltician.) If only we could make a difference.

[simon275]

Its all over the news here.

Apparently the US Air Force scrambled planes and put them in the air over all major US cities.

What is interesting though is the plane hit the building from the inland side not the river side where the flight path is.

[DaveW]

You folks have to understand that being a New Yorker who witnessed 911 up close and very personal, we take it pretty seriously when a plane crashes into a building. It's a huge ****ing deal, at least until we get the details of whats going on. My windows rattled from this explosion.

Hey, not trying to downplay it. It's a big issue. Soon as i saw it on TV I thought of you. Good to know you're ok man.

-Dave

[Crimson Sky]

I'm NOT OK..I stubbed my frickin' toe running to the TV to turn it on and see whats was happening. oww. :p

[tybrenis]

As Dave said, I'm not at all trying to downplay this. This is obviously a very serious issue, and very obviously could have been much worse. With 911 and everything, I am happy as well as unsurprised that they scrambled the airforce.

When you hear an explosion in NYC and here a plane has crashed into a building, it's NEVER good news.

I guess I'm just having a bad day thinking about the media and politics in general. Debating with 14 and 15 year olds about politics, as I have learned, is always pointless and dumb to even attempt. As was my day in school.

[Slug Toy]

evidently the west coast of canada doesnt follow american happenings very closely. i still havent heard anything about this. i just learned about it from you guys.

so it WAS a bad day after all. things are nice over here today, and i figured something was going to happen to even everything out.

i guess ill learn about it on the daily show tonight... the last unbiased (allbeit comedic) news show around.

[ajmilton]

I guess I'm just having a bad day thinking about the media and politics in general. Debating with 14 and 15 year olds about politics, as I have learned, is always pointless and dumb to even attempt. As was my day in school.

in my experience, debating with *anybody* about politics is generally a waste of time :)

[public_eyesore]

I guess one the guys in the plane was a pitcher for the Yankees. Anyone know who the other guy is?

[Airbozo]

I guess one the guys in the plane was a pitcher for the Yankees. Anyone know who the other guy is?

...his flight instructor...

AMAZINGLY, no one in the apartment building was physically hurt.

[public_eyesore]

i heard one lady got second degrre burns on her legs

[tybrenis]

Yeah, I heard that something like 15-25 people were hospitalized. I'm drawing 24 from the article I read this morning.

[DaveW]

Interestingly, I was almost correct about British newspapers: All of them had this as their cover story, bar one: the Independent. That had coverage of the report saying that over half a million people died in the Iraq war (something that Bush, or course, denies, claiming the figure to be more like 30,000, not 500,000. Well of course he's going to deny it...he wouldn't be able to sleep at night if he accepted it as true...).

-Dave

[gaz_the_chav]

I must say I hate the newspapers - especially like THE SUN as they are full of BULL**** and over-exagerate everything and when they are proved wrong they sue someone lol. It's all a load of crap!!!!

-gaz

[DaveW]

The SUN isn't a newspaper. It's more like HEAT magazine.

-Dave

[gaz_the_chav]

The SUN isn't a newspaper. It's more like HEAT magazine.


Damn right thats what I am trying to say! Tis all **** in there.

-gaz

[Crimson Sky]

OK...thsi is freaky. Seems like the City does NOt want this woman around...


***************
Cory Lidle's doomed plane didn't just crash into anybody's apartment.
It exploded into the empty bedroom of Kathleen Caronna, the Manhattan woman who was critically injured when a balloon knocked part of a lamppost onto her head during the 1997 Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The plane's engine was found only feet away from where Caronna sleeps, her relatives told the Daily News yesterday.

"She lost her whole bedroom," said a family member, who asked not to be identified. "Everything's devastated. ... She's got nowhere to go."

Caronna was on her way home Wednesday when the plane crashed into the Belaire at 2:42p.m. She was extremely shaken after the disaster, telling loved ones she would have been home if the plane had crashed only a few minutes later.

Her sister-in-law, Lisa Brown, 43, called Caronna's situation "unbelievable."

"How do you go through two major things like this?" Brown asked. "It's spooky. It's very spooky."

Caronna was a 33-year-old investment analyst in 1997 when she was critically injured at the Thanksgiving Day parade.

She was watching the festivities with her husband and 7-month-old son at 72nd St. and Central Park West when handlers lost control of the six-story-high Cat in the Hat balloon.

A section of a streetlight weighing several hundred pounds fell and hit Caronna on the head. Her skull was fractured, and she spent 24 days in a coma before waking up. She later sued Macy's and the city for $395 million, but settled for an undisclosed amount in 2001.

Yesterday, investigators escorted Caronna into her charred apartment to survey the damage, her relatives said.

She has been living in the high-rise with her husband, Ignazio Massimo, and their 9-year-old son, Alessandro.

"This is a tough time for us, and I can't really talk now," her husband said yesterday.

Caronna's mother, Helen Brown, said her daughter's apartment is unlivable. The bedroom went up in flames. Asked about her daughter, Brown said, "She's fine."

*********************

[GT40_GearHead]

bloody hell..... this is more than bad karma

now thats just ****&d up, and i must ask my self what the hell did they do a past life to deserve all this crap

hope they got insurance, any way, its a good thing thay got each other, one man could not bear this by himself