Yankee’s Plane Crashed Because of Defect, Lawyer Says
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New York Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle’s plane slammed into a building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 2006 because the aircraft’s flight-control system was defective, a lawyer for his estate told a jury.
Lidle and his flight instructor, Tyler Stanger, were killed when their plane crashed into an apartment building on East 72nd Street. Lidle was 34 and Stanger was 26. Their widows filed a wrongful-death suit against Duluth, Minnesota-based Cirrus Design Corp., the maker of Lidle’s single-engine SR20 plane, in February 2007.