Thu, Oct 12, 2006
Lidle's Flight Instructor Was Onboard Cirrus
ANN REALTIME UPDATE
10.12.06 1330 EDT: Aero-News has learned authorities have
identified the second victim in Wednesday's crash of a Cirrus SR20
into a Manhattan highrise apartment building as Tyler Stanger, the
26-year-old flight instructor who taught Cory Lidle how to fly.
Lidle, a 34-year-old pitcher for the New York Yankees, was also
killed in the accident. Authorities report 23 persons were injured,
many of them firefighters hurt while battling the four-alarm fire
that ensued.
Family members say Stanger learned to fly when he was 17, and
worked as an aviation mechanic until two years ago. He then bought
a pair of Cessna 172s and started his own flight training
school.
Stanger reportedly once described Lidle, who received his
private pilot's license in February of this year, as his
best student to date.
Family members told WABC-TV that Stanger's wife was on a
commercial flight from New York to California when the accident
occurred. Stanger's grandmother, Meriam Stanger, said the two men
were preparing to fly the Cirrus home to California.
"And on that flight back, they wanted to have a good time on the
way," she told WABC-TV.
Still to be determined is what led the men to accidentally fly
their aircraft into the Belaire apartment tower on Manhattan's
Upper East Side. As Aero-News reported
Wednesday, investigators with the National Transportation Safety
Board are on the scene.
Stay tuned to ANN for further updates on this tragic
accident.
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