Yankee Crashes Plane In NYC

American Voices

A small plane piloted by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle hit a Manhattan high-rise apartment building Wednesday. What do you think?

Steinbrenner will do anything to keep the Mets out of the paper.

Rebecca Lew
Tour Guide
Does any one else find it an amazing 'coincidence' that his happened on the 11th and the 'Yankees' plus 'Cory' has 11 letters, and October is the month after September?

John Canyon
Machinist
Five years and one month later and nothing has changed—buildings still haven't learned to stay out of the way of planes.

Rick Crawford
Systems Analyst

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