GA crashes into 50 story apartment in NYC

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 11 Oct 2006, 22:18

pilot was the pitcher fot the NY Yankees Cory Lidle
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/11/plane.crash/index.html

delticbob · Post by **delticbob** » 11 Oct 2006, 22:32

Yes, just been watching it on the BBC 10.00 o'clock news.

Must be thankful the building the plane hit was apartments & a lot of people were still out.

Bob

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 11 Oct 2006, 22:54

Sounds nasty... but some of the link titles in CNN's article are worse "Watch witness accounts of cascading fireballs and a plane split in half" or how about "Watch the orange flames ravage the apartment" :k: No offence and dont wish to sound too cynical, but do these guys know where Hollywood ends and the real world begins?

Chris Trott · Post by **Chris Trott** » 12 Oct 2006, 02:49

In today's media? Nope. If they go so far as creating news (as they have) then they have blurred the line between fiction and reality so much that from their end, there is no difference.

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 12 Oct 2006, 04:35

Well said Chris
Monty OrangeBall lives

I think the classic line was on CNN

"He only got his license to fly last year - why didnt someone stop him from
flying".

I wish the media would get a life

BTW I feel very sorry for his family - and Im also surpirsed that a Cirrus
made that much of an impact

Leif

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 12 Oct 2006, 05:10

it's the stuff between the commercials
that keeps the cash comming in.
it behooves them to have the best stuff on
to attract the biggest accounts.

..Money, its a crime.
Share it fairly but dont take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise its no surprise that theyre
Giving none away
....Pink Floyd

its' driving me mad...
:roll:

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 12 Oct 2006, 17:20

The point I was making is that over here, only the trash media (tabloid newspapers etc) would adopt that sort of sensationalist, ghoulish line when describing people's houses bruning after a fatal accident. I'm pretty certain there would be a barrage of complaints if the BBC or any of the broadsheets used wording like that, and I thought CNN was your (stateside) equivalent of the more 'respectable' end of the media.

jonesey2k · Post by **jonesey2k** » 12 Oct 2006, 18:13

I wonder why they didnt deploy the CAPS.

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 12 Oct 2006, 19:09

Jonesy that was addressed this morning - apparently they were flying the VFR corridor down the Hudson river which meant that they were not more than 1000 foot when the whole thing happened - the Apartment building they hit is no moer than half a block from the river - whatever went wrong happened so fast there was no time for it to deploy - and the manufacturer
is not even sure it would have successfully deployed that low

Leif

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 12 Oct 2006, 22:22

as I understand it the minimum altitude is 2000 feet

Toby .... dude the media over here Is absolutly out of frinken
control
they make the statments as they see it and reserve
the right to make corrections later ......
.... Damage already done ????? tough shite
Fill the slots between the comercials for crying out loud...
no dead air
CNN ? and all the rest....... FOX says there the best
...........it's bullhocky
they just have better personalitys ... better at what I don;t know
....just a bunch of side show geeks pitching snake oil
for thier common good ... money