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NEW YORK (AP) - A small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into a high-rise condominium tower Wednesday on the Upper East Side, killing at least two people and raining flaming debris on the sidewalks below, authorities said.
The New York City medical examiner's office now says two people have died in the plane crash, not four as the office had previously reported.
There was no immediate confirmation Lidle was among the dead, although a federal law enforcement official said Lidle's passport was found on the street beneath the crash site.
A law enforcement official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lidle was on the plane. And Federal Aviation Administration records showed the single-engine plane was registered to the athlete.
There was no word yet on injuries linked to the crash on an overcast October afternoon, which sent thick black smoke soaring above the city skyline and flames shooting out of apartments above the tony neighborhood.
On Sunday, the day after the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs, Lidle cleaned out his locker at Yankee Stadium and talked about his interest in flying. He explained to reporters the process of getting a pilot's license, and said he intended to fly back to California in several days and planned to make a few stops.
Lidle, 34, a nine-year major league veteran, came to the Yankees from the Philadelphia Phillies in a late-season trade. The journeyman pitched for seven teams during a career in compiling an 82-78 lifetime record.
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I think the thing that got me the most about this was the crazy uproar that I saw in the news when it was reported a plane hit a building in New York City. No one bothered to explain it was a small, fixed-wing aircraft. CNN, Faux News, MSNBC, all of them sprung into action to cover what was essentially a bad accident. And it's not like no one knew... because in most all the articles I started reading, it would be buried somewhere in the middle that they had reports it was a small plane. But of course that wasn't mentioned as part of the larger scope of the story until they'd all gone through their "could this be an attack?" nonsense.