Former Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Cory Lidle died when a plane he was piloting crashed into a fifty story high-rise on Manhattan’s Upper East Side Wednesday afternoon. New York authorities have said that the small four-seat Cirrus SR20 plane Lidle piloted departed from Teterboro Airport in Northern New Jersey around 2:30 pm. The aircraft slammed into an apartment in the Belaire Condominiums at 524 E. 72nd Street near the East River only fifteen minutes later. Within minutes after the crash, more than 150 firefighters rushed to the scene to extinguish the raging fire on the 39th and 40th floors of the building, a consequence of the crash. The thick black spoke billowing from the building created a scene eerily reminiscent of September 11th.