RE: Small aircraft owned by Yankee pitcher crashes into NYC high-rise building
Alright a correction. A fixed wing must mean a low wing plane. It is a Cirrus SR20. Here is a picture of what they look like.
There is also a rumor that he had a passenger that might have been training him on the plane. I keep hearing them mention that the engine was sputtering. When you don't have an engine working while flying, it is hard to control them espically if the engine problems knocked out some of the electrical systems. Depending on degree of engine problems, that can happen. Without the instruments, flying a plane is like driving in the dark without headlights.
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For example, the person who owned a plane with my dad, had the engine blow a piston and he wasn't able to make it to an airport. Fortuneatly in that case he crash landed in a corn field and everyone was okay.
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