Investigators returned to a luxury Manhattan high-rise Thursday as they sought to answer questions about how a small airplane with New York Yankee Cory Lidle aboard slammed into the building, killing the pitcher and a flight instructor.
A partial sense of normalcy returned to the neighborhood as residents were allowed past checkpoints and into their scorched and battered building. The bodies had been removed, but pieces of fuselage, a plane door and crushed vehicles still littered the street in the frozen zone.
National Transportation Safety Board member Debbie Hersman said federal investigators arrived Wednesday evening and quickly found a crash scene with debris scattered everywhere. Aircraft parts and headsets were on the ground, and investigators discovered the pilot's log book in the wreckage. The propeller broke apart from the engine, which landed on the floor of an apartment. The bodies fell to the ground.
"We're continuing to review tapes,'' Hersman said Thursday. "We'll be looking to talk to other pilots who might have been in the vicinity. We have very exhaustive, comprehensive investigations. We're going to try to find anything we can to find out what happened.''
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly identified the instructor on Thursday as Tyler Stanger. He operated a flight school at Brackett field in La Verne, Calif., and lived with his wife and young child in Walnut, Calif.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a temporary restriction requiring all general aviation aircraft flying below
1,500 feet near the city to be authorized by air traffic control.
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