Cory Lidle killed in NY plane crash

[adamb0719]

Apparently His dad found out by watching it on TV His wife and child were on the way to Cali when it happened and were being met at the airport by a priest.

 

Compton said Lidle's wife, Melanie, and their 6-year-old son Christopher had left New York for Los Angeles before the accident, and likely had no way of learning of the news. According to Compton, a priest planned to meet the flight at Los Angeles International Airport and break the news to Melanie Lidle that her life is forever changed.

 

I can't even imagine what it would be like to learn of your childs death by watching the news.

[Andy]

My condolences to all of the families involved

 

Athletes Who Died In Plane Crashes

• Oct. 18, 1925 -- Marvin Goodwin, Cincinnati Reds pitcher, in Houston.

• March 31, 1931 -- Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach, in Kansas

• May 4, 1949 -- 22 members of Torino, the Italian soccer champions, in Turin, Italy.

• Oct. 27, 1949 -- Marcel Cerdan, former world middleweight champion, en route to fight Jake LaMotta in Spain.

• July 1, 1954 -- John McBride, Alabama halfback, killed in ROTC training flight in Texas.

• Oct. 30, 1954 -- Wilbur Shaw, President of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in Decatur, Ind.

• Sept. 20, 1956 -- Tom Gastall, Baltimore Orioles catcher, in Maryland.

• Nov. 27, 1956 -- Charlie Peete, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder, in Venezuela.

• Feb. 6, 1958 -- Eight members of the English soccer champion Manchester United, in Munich.

• Aug. 14, 1958 -- Six members of the Egyptian fencing team, in the Atlantic Ocean.

• Oct. 30, 1958 -- Philip Scrutton, British Walker Cup golfer.

• April 29, 1959 -- Joaquin Blume, Spain's European gymnastics champion, in Madrid.

• Oct. 10, 1960 -- 16 members of the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo football team, in Toledo, Ohio.

• Feb. 16, 1961 -- 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team, in Belgium.

• April 3, 1961 -- Green Cross, a first-division Chilean soccer team, in the Las Lastimas Mountains.

• March 1, 1962 -- Johnny Dieckman, world fly-casting champion, in Chicago.

• April 12, 1962 -- Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver, in Melbourne.

• Feb. 15, 1964 -- Ken Hubbs, 22, Chicago Cub second baseman, in Utah.

• July 24, 1966 -- Tony Lema, 1964 British Open champion, in Munster, Ind.

• April 28, 1968 -- Six members of the Lamar Tech track team, in Beaumont, Texas.

• Aug. 31, 1969 -- Rocky Marciano, heavyweight boxing champion, Newton, Iowa

• Sept. 26, 1969 -- 25 members of Bolivian soccer team "The Strongest", in the Andes.

• Oct. 2, 1970 -- 14 Wichita State football players, in Colorado.

• Nov. 14, 1970 -- 36 Marshall University football players, in Huntington, W.Va.

• Oct. 11, 1972 -- 30 members of a Uruguayan rugby club, in Chile.

• Dec. 31, 1972 -- Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder, from San Juan, Puerto Rico en route to Nicaragua to aid earthquake victims.

• June 24, 1975 -- Wendell Ladner, New York Nets forward, in New York.

• Dec. 13, 1977 -- 14 University of Evansville basketball players and coach Bobby Watson in Evansville, Ind.

• Aug. 2, 1979 -- Thurman Munson, New York Yankees catcher, in Canton, Ohio.

• Jan. 11, 1980 -- Bo Rein, LSU football coach, in the Atlantic Ocean.

• March 14, 1980 -- 14 members of the U.S. amateur boxing team in Warsaw, Poland.

• Dec. 12, 1983 -- Rex Dockery, Memphis State football coach, with offensive coordinator Chris Faros and defensive back Charles Greenhill, Lawrenceburg, Tenn.

• Nov. 25, 1985 -- Six members of the Iowa State women's cross country team in Des Moines, Iowa.

• Aug. 16, 1987 -- Nick Vanos, Phoenix Suns center, in Romulus, Mich.

• Dec. 8, 1987 -- 17 players of the Alianza Peruvian first-division soccer team in Lima, Peru.

• Sept. 30, 1988 -- Al Holbert, six-time IMSA champion, near Columbus Ohio.

• July 19, 1989 -- Jay Ramsdell, CBA Commissioner, in Sioux City, Iowa.

• April 1, 1993 -- Alan Kulwicki, NASCAR's 1992 champion, in Blountville, Tenn.

• April 28, 1993 -- 18 players and five team officials of Zambia's national soccer team in Libreville, Gabon.

• July 13, 1993 -- Davey Allison, NASCAR driver, the day after a helicopter he was piloting crashed on the infield at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala.

• April 18, 1996 -- Brook Berringer, Nebraska quarterback, two days before the NFL draft, when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Raymond, Neb.

• May 11, 1996 -- Rodney Culver, San Diego Chargers running back, in Florida Everglades.

• Oct. 25, 1999 -- Payne Stewart, winner of the 1989 PGA Championship and a two-time U.S. Open winner, two miles west of Mina, S.D.

• Jan. 27, 2001 -- Oklahoma State basketball players Dan Lawson and Nate Fleming, and six team staffers and broadcasters, in Byers, Colo.

-- Associated Press

Culver was a running back (and a very good one) for Notre Dame in the early 1990s. My grandparents still have tapes of games he played in at ND. I knew he had died but didn't know it was like this. Demetrius DuBose, who played LB for those teams, died a few years ago in a Tampa police shootout.

 

Anyway, I hadn't heard anything about this (not about the original crash, nothing) until I got back from seeing a movie tonight. Turned on ESPNEWS as is my custom and Kurkjian is saying Lidle's dead. Really sad.

[Laura]

So, it was a mechanical issue with the plane?

 

 

Cirruses have parachutes on board that literally bring the entire plane down gently in case of something like this......any word on why that wasn't used?

 

This is very sad. RIP Cory :(

 

I only saw some speculation on that earlier. The thought was that by the time the seriousness of whatever problem it was became apparent, the plane was at too low an altitude and there weren't any landing areas available.

[Soriano12]

Wow...He was a few weeks from gettting a pretty decent contract from some team.

 

I know it seams meaningless at this point, but most men, including myself, want nothing more than their families "taken care of" should they pass on.

 

RIP.

[RichHillIsABeast]

So, it was a mechanical issue with the plane?

 

 

Cirruses have parachutes on board that literally bring the entire plane down gently in case of something like this......any word on why that wasn't used?

 

This is very sad. RIP Cory :(

 

Those parachutes aren't meant to help you survive flying into a stationary object.

[Electron Blue]

So, it was a mechanical issue with the plane?

 

 

Cirruses have parachutes on board that literally bring the entire plane down gently in case of something like this......any word on why that wasn't used?

 

This is very sad. RIP Cory :(

 

Those parachutes aren't meant to help you survive flying into a stationary object.

 

But if they encountered trouble earlier on -- as they reportedly did -- there would seemingly have been a time that parachutes might have helped.

[Omar]

Did anyone in the building die/get injured? They've already stated 2 died in the plane.

[rocket]

Wow...He was a few weeks from gettting a pretty decent contract from some team.

 

I know it seams meaningless at this point, but most men, including myself, want nothing more than their families "taken care of" should they pass on.

 

RIP.

 

the 17.5 million he made should help out a tad

[Omar]

Wow...He was a few weeks from gettting a pretty decent contract from some team.

 

I know it seams meaningless at this point, but most men, including myself, want nothing more than their families "taken care of" should they pass on.

 

RIP.

 

the 17.5 million he made should help out a tad

 

It still cant replace a husband and father. Anyhow, I'm wondering if the 2007 season will be dedicated to him.

[rocket]

Wow...He was a few weeks from gettting a pretty decent contract from some team.

 

I know it seams meaningless at this point, but most men, including myself, want nothing more than their families "taken care of" should they pass on.

 

RIP.

 

the 17.5 million he made should help out a tad

 

It still cant replace a husband and father. Anyhow, I'm wondering if the 2007 season will be dedicated to him.

 

of course not. but "taken care of" in quotes to me means financially taken care of, which they will be.

[Wilson A2000]

Not sure if this has been posted, but the other person killed was the flight instructor

[Bote McBoteface]

So, it was a mechanical issue with the plane?

 

 

Cirruses have parachutes on board that literally bring the entire plane down gently in case of something like this......any word on why that wasn't used?

 

This is very sad. RIP Cory :(

 

Those parachutes aren't meant to help you survive flying into a stationary object.

 

Nice smart alec answer, however had he killed the engine and pulled the parachute, he would not have hit the stationary object...

 

He must have just not had enough time for it.

[C.C.]

When I was out a bit earlier I was listening to B & B on 670, and someone called crying claiming to be Cory Lidle's first cousin, saying that Boers and Bernstein were making fun of Cory's death. The hosts did what they did best and deflect blame and claim that they were just stating facts. Did anyone else catch this today?

 

(BTW, I love boers and bernstein, so my comments aren't of critical nature of them, but they do this sort of stuff a lot)

 

Everyone was making fun of it. The guys on AM 1000 Mac, Jurko, and Harry were playing "Learning to fly" on their station. It's sad but the circumstances are ripe for this kind of joking. For me it's the chances you take when flying small planes. He knew the danger and he died because of it. Sad but it what it is....

[wade]

I remember when Thurman Munson died in private plane crash, many of my friends were crushed.

 

Munson's who I thought of when I heard about this. I was 9 years old, at a Tiger game after he died and they held a moment of silence. I remember to this day how amazed I was as a kid that such a hush could fall over a stadium full of people.

[Outshined_One]

Nice smart alec answer, however had he killed the engine and pulled the parachute, he would not have hit the stationary object...

 

He must have just not had enough time for it.

 

The problem with Cirruses is that those parachutes are usually rather useless.

 

The Cirrus:

 

The Parachute

 

If all else fails... pull the parachute. Unfortunately, as of July 2005 all of the folks who actually needed the parachute to save their lives are in fact dead. The previously mentioned owners in New York who got into a spin, for example. Either the 'chute didn't work or they couldn't get it to deploy. On February 6, 2005, an SR22 pilot crossing the Sierra reported having trouble with ice (NTSB ID: LAX05FA088), despite the fact that his plane was equipped with the TKS ice protection option. He pulled the parachute, but was apparently going too fast at the time, which resulted in the cords ripping out of the airplane and the plane and pilot slamming into a mountainside.

[imb]

berninghausen

[goonys evil twin]

When I was out a bit earlier I was listening to B & B on 670, and someone called crying claiming to be Cory Lidle's first cousin, saying that Boers and Bernstein were making fun of Cory's death. The hosts did what they did best and deflect blame and claim that they were just stating facts. Did anyone else catch this today?

 

(BTW, I love boers and bernstein, so my comments aren't of critical nature of them, but they do this sort of stuff a lot)

 

Everyone was making fun of it. The guys on AM 1000 Mac, Jurko, and Harry were playing "Learning to fly" on their station. It's sad but the circumstances are ripe for this kind of joking. For me it's the chances you take when flying small planes. He knew the danger and he died because of it. Sad but it what it is....

 

Who cares if he knew the dangers. Do you say the same thing about people who die in car accidents? They are far more dangerous than small planes.

 

This isn't ripe for that sort of joking. And everybody wasn't making fun of it, just the idiots.

[C.C.]

When I was out a bit earlier I was listening to B & B on 670, and someone called crying claiming to be Cory Lidle's first cousin, saying that Boers and Bernstein were making fun of Cory's death. The hosts did what they did best and deflect blame and claim that they were just stating facts. Did anyone else catch this today?

 

(BTW, I love boers and bernstein, so my comments aren't of critical nature of them, but they do this sort of stuff a lot)

 

Everyone was making fun of it. The guys on AM 1000 Mac, Jurko, and Harry were playing "Learning to fly" on their station. It's sad but the circumstances are ripe for this kind of joking. For me it's the chances you take when flying small planes. He knew the danger and he died because of it. Sad but it what it is....

 

Who cares if he knew the dangers. Do you say the same thing about people who die in car accidents? They are far more dangerous than small planes.

 

This isn't ripe for that sort of joking. And everybody wasn't making fun of it, just the idiots.

 

It all depends how you deal with death. Everyone's different, to call people idiots is a little too much. Comparing driving a car to flying a single engine plane is nonsense. One is a necessity in life and the other is pleasure.

[goonys evil twin]

It all depends how you deal with death. Everyone's different, to call people idiots is a little too much. Comparing driving a car to flying a single engine plane is nonsense. One is a necessity in life and the other is pleasure.

 

Driving cars is far more deadly, and for many, small planes are as much a necessity as a car.

 

 

If you are joking about a death like that immediately after hearing it, you are a pathetic jdiot.

[C.C.]

It all depends how you deal with death. Everyone's different, to call people idiots is a little too much. Comparing driving a car to flying a single engine plane is nonsense. One is a necessity in life and the other is pleasure.

 

Driving cars is far more deadly, and for many, small planes are as much a necessity as a car.

 

 

If you are joking about a death like that immediately after hearing it, you are a pathetic jdiot.

 

Did I say I was joking about it! Did I post that! You're the idiot who blindy can't see any other way but your own. Expand your mind a bit will ya! Everyone is different and everyone deals with death in their own way.

[goonys evil twin]

It all depends how you deal with death. Everyone's different, to call people idiots is a little too much. Comparing driving a car to flying a single engine plane is nonsense. One is a necessity in life and the other is pleasure.

 

Driving cars is far more deadly, and for many, small planes are as much a necessity as a car.

 

 

If you are joking about a death like that immediately after hearing it, you are a pathetic jdiot.

 

Did I say I was joking about it! Did I post that! You're the idiot who blindy can't see any other way but your own. Expand your mind a bit will ya! Everyone is different and everyone deals with death in their own way.

 

Excuse me? Calling me an idiot?

 

You wrote about radio people joking about it, you wrote about "everybody" joking about it. It's hard to tell whether or not you were joking about it, but it's clear you have no problem with people that were. I do have a problem with them and have no problem calling them idiots. I never said anything about you.

[fromthestretch]

It all depends how you deal with death. Everyone's different, to call people idiots is a little too much. Comparing driving a car to flying a single engine plane is nonsense. One is a necessity in life and the other is pleasure.

 

Driving cars is far more deadly, and for many, small planes are as much a necessity as a car.

 

 

If you are joking about a death like that immediately after hearing it, you are a pathetic jdiot.

 

Did I say I was joking about it! Did I post that! You're the idiot who blindy can't see any other way but your own. Expand your mind a bit will ya! Everyone is different and everyone deals with death in their own way.

 

Expand your mind?!?! Playing "Learning to Fly" on a radio station in a major market in response to someone dying in a plane crash less than 24 hours after the crash took place is in extremely poor taste and frankly, I don't think it's too much to call someone an idiot for doing that.

[C.C.]

It all depends how you deal with death. Everyone's different, to call people idiots is a little too much. Comparing driving a car to flying a single engine plane is nonsense. One is a necessity in life and the other is pleasure.

 

Driving cars is far more deadly, and for many, small planes are as much a necessity as a car.

 

 

If you are joking about a death like that immediately after hearing it, you are a pathetic jdiot.

 

Did I say I was joking about it! Did I post that! You're the idiot who blindy can't see any other way but your own. Expand your mind a bit will ya! Everyone is different and everyone deals with death in their own way.

 

Excuse me? Calling me an idiot?

 

You wrote about radio people joking about it, you wrote about "everybody" joking about it. It's hard to tell whether or not you were joking about it, but it's clear you have no problem with people that were. I do have a problem with them and have no problem calling them idiots. I never said anything about you.

 

As long as were clear on that.

[goonys evil twin]

It all depends how you deal with death. Everyone's different, to call people idiots is a little too much. Comparing driving a car to flying a single engine plane is nonsense. One is a necessity in life and the other is pleasure.

 

Driving cars is far more deadly, and for many, small planes are as much a necessity as a car.

 

 

If you are joking about a death like that immediately after hearing it, you are a pathetic jdiot.

 

Did I say I was joking about it! Did I post that! You're the idiot who blindy can't see any other way but your own. Expand your mind a bit will ya! Everyone is different and everyone deals with death in their own way.

 

Excuse me? Calling me an idiot?

 

You wrote about radio people joking about it, you wrote about "everybody" joking about it. It's hard to tell whether or not you were joking about it, but it's clear you have no problem with people that were. I do have a problem with them and have no problem calling them idiots. I never said anything about you.

 

As long as were clear on that.

 

I see that I used the word "you", and can see why you might think I was calling you an idiot, but I wasn't. I was meaning the general "you", as in, if you are the type of person whose first instinct is to play learning to fly on the radio after hearing of this incident, then you are an idiot in my mind". Apologize for the confusion. My bad.

[C.C.]

It all depends how you deal with death. Everyone's different, to call people idiots is a little too much. Comparing driving a car to flying a single engine plane is nonsense. One is a necessity in life and the other is pleasure.

 

Driving cars is far more deadly, and for many, small planes are as much a necessity as a car.

 

 

If you are joking about a death like that immediately after hearing it, you are a pathetic jdiot.

 

Did I say I was joking about it! Did I post that! You're the idiot who blindy can't see any other way but your own. Expand your mind a bit will ya! Everyone is different and everyone deals with death in their own way.

 

Excuse me? Calling me an idiot?

 

You wrote about radio people joking about it, you wrote about "everybody" joking about it. It's hard to tell whether or not you were joking about it, but it's clear you have no problem with people that were. I do have a problem with them and have no problem calling them idiots. I never said anything about you.

 

As long as were clear on that.

 

I see that I used the word "you", and can see why you might think I was calling you an idiot, but I wasn't. I was meaning the general "you", as in, if you are the type of person whose first instinct is to play learning to fly on the radio after hearing of this incident, then you are an idiot in my mind". Apologize for the confusion. My bad.

 

Not a problem. Everyone has a opinion on the matter and not everyone has to like it.