First, the news that immediately reminds us of, well, that.
Plane and high rise in New York. A crash. I first learned of it on a Fox News EMail alert and immediately turned the TV on.
1) Pictures of the building and realization: small fire, plus we later learn the plane didn't go into the building. Most of it crashed to the ground.
2) A sea of responders (yes!) as FDNY and NYPD take nothing for granted.
Then I had to leave work, pick up Robbie and take him to the orthodontist. Bring him home, get back to work around 5:30 and discover....
3) Joe Torre is quoted as saying the plane is registered to Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle.
4) Mayor Bloomberg (the part I saw) gives a thorough press conference.
5) Then, later, confirmation of Lidle's death, apparently while on a sightseeing trip that left Teeterboro Airport across the line in New Jersey. His flight instructor perished, too.
Thankfully, no one in the high rise passed.
What a weird story. Five years and a month after 9/11.
Plus, this puts the whole Yankee uproar and disappointment over losing into proper perspective. It really doesn't matter.
PLEASE pray for his wife Melanie, and six year old son, Christopher.
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