NTSB Advisory
National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594
February 1, 2007

NTSB TO RELEASE FACTUAL REPORTS ON MANHATTAN CIRRUS CRASH

On October 11, 2006, about 2:42 pm eastern daylight time, a Cirrus SR-20, N929CD, crashed into an apartment building in Manhattan. Two people onboard the airplane -- New York Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle, a certificated private pilot, who was the owner of the airplane, and a passenger, who was a certificated commercial pilot with a flight instructor certificate -- were killed and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and post crash fire. No fatalities occurred on the ground. Substantial damage occurred to several of the residences in the building.

The information being released is factual in nature and does not provide any analysis. It will include investigative group factual reports, interview transcripts, and other documents from the investigation. Additional material will be added to the docket as it becomes available. Analysis of the accident, along with conclusions and a determination of probable cause, will come at a later date when the final report on the investigation is completed.

For news media representatives, a CD-ROM containing the docket material will be available from the Office of Public Affairs, NTSB Headquarters (6th floor), 490 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington, D.C. beginning at 11:00 a.m., Monday, February 5, 2007. Docket material also can be obtained from the NTSB's Public Inquiries Branch by calling (202) 314-6551, or from General Microfilm, Inc., (304) 267-5830.

This will be a document release only; no interviews will be conducted.

Media Contact: Keith Holloway, (202) 314-6100
hollowk@ntsb.gov

Media Contact: Paul Schlamm
(202) 314-6100
schlamp@ntsb.gov

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