Noteworthy Headlines

See www.blogging-baseball.com/2006/10/12/more-updates-on-cory-lidle-and-manhattan-condo-crash/ for converage of the Manhattan Condo plane crash:

FAA and former NTSB director both raise the following question;

"The FAA said it was too early to determine what might have caused the crash.

How the plane managed to penetrate airspace over one of the most densely packed sections of New York City was not clear. The plane was unusual in that it was equipped with a parachute in case of engine failure, but there was no sign the chute was used.

Former NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board] director Jim Hall said in a telephone interview he does not understand how a plane could get so close to a New York City building after Sept. 11.

'We're under a high alert and you would assume that if something like this happened, people would have known about it before it occurred, not after,' Hall said."