Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor were killed Wednesday when Lidle's plane crashed into a high-rise apartment building in New York, city and baseball team officials said.
No residents at the Belaire Condominiums at 524 E. 72nd Street near the East River were injured.
“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.”
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Mr. Lidle had been a major league pitcher for nine years.
He earned his pilot’s license during the last off-season and tried to assure everyone that his Cirrus SR20, 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.
