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First Hand Accounts of Manhattan tall building crash
From New York Times:
Luis Gonzalez, 23, was one of several construction workers and others viewing plans for renovating an apartment in the Belaire when they looked out the window and saw a plane headed their way. “It was coming right at us, directly at us at the floor where we were working on,” he said. They could see the pilot’s face, he said, and then they saw the plane veering toward the right, as if the pilot was trying to avoid hitting them. “The whole building shook,” he said. “Then we ran for the elevator.” Rob Miranda, a carpenter also working in the building on the 46th floor. He said that the plane had been wobbling, and at first, they thought it was a stunt plane. “He was out of control,” Mr. Miranda said. “He was on an incline, accelerating as he passed. Then he hooked around the corner, he hit the north side of the building, and you heard a tremendous explosion.” He said he and the other workers ran, checking the 38th and 39th floors for any people who needed to get out. As smoke quickly began filling up the rooms, they took the elevators down. ..... Mr. Lidle had been a major league pitcher for nine years He earned his pilot’s license last off-season and tried to assure everyone that his CirrusSR20, a four seat plane he bought for $187,000. was safe. “The whole plane has a parachute on it,” he told The Times last month. “Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you’re up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.” The subject of a player piloting a plane was already somewhat sensitive for the Yankees. In 1979, Thurman Munson, the Yankee catcher and team captain, was killed in the crash of a plane he was flying. |
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