Smoke and flames pour out of the Belaire, a condo high-rise building, after a small plane crashed into it on Manhattan's Upper East Side Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 in New York.
In this image taken from video, flames pour out of an apartment building on Manhattan's East Side after being hit by a small plane, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, in New York, amid foggy weather, killing the aircraft's two occupants. Flames and a trail of smoke billowed from two floors of the building in the affluent neighborhood.
In this image taken from video, flames are seen pouring out of the side of an apartment building on Manhattan's East Side shortly after it was hit by a small plane, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, in New York, amid foggy weather. The plane was registered to New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, who was one of two people killed in the crash.
A New York City Police Department helicopter hovers as smoke pours out of the side of an apartment building on Manhattan's East Side after being hit by a small plane Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 in New York amid foggy weather, killing at least two people, authorities said.
A woman and child look up at the smoldering Belaire Condo high-rise building on Manhattan's East Side after a small plane hit the building Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 in New York. At least two people have reportedly killed as result of the plane crashing into the 50-story residential building.
Debris from the airplane that hit a building on Manhattan's Upper East Side is seen burning in the street in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006. A small plane belonging to New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into a 50-story condominium tower, raining flaming debris onto the sidewalks below and rattling New Yorkers' nerves five years after the Sept. 11 attack. Police said at least two people were killed.
Debris lays on the ground in front of the Belaire condo high-rise building on Manhattan's Upper East Side after a small plane crashed into it Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 in New York.
Firefighters are seen on the street below the building after a small plane crashed into the condominium tower Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 on New York's Upper East Side.
Emergency personnel gather on a street on Manhattan's East Side after an apartment building was hit by a small plane Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 in New York.
Two heavily armed New York Police Department officers secure the area after a small plane crashed into an apartment building on Manhattan's East Side Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 in New York. Fighter jets were scrambled above some U.S. cities as a precaution after the crash, a top commander said.
Emergency personnel gather on a street by an apartment building on Manhattan's East Side that was hit by a small plane Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 in New York. Authorities scrambled fighter jets above some cities as a precaution after the crash of the small aircraft, a top commander said.
Damage from a small plane crash is seen at an apartment building on Manhattan's East Side Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, in New York.
A women cries on York Avenue near the scene of a crash of a small plane into the Belaire high-rise apartment building on New York's Upper East Side. Two people are reported to have been killed, including New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, as result of the plane crashing into the 50-story residential building.
New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle reacts to a reporters question during a news conference at Yankee Stadium in New York, in this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006 file photo. Lidle's small plane crashed into a 50-story condominium tower in the Manhattan borough of New York, raining flaming debris onto the sidewalks below and rattling New Yorkers' nerves five years after the Sept. 11 attack.
Pilot Tyler Stanger poses inside his plane at Brackett Field Airport in LaVerne, Calif., in this Spring 2004 file photo. Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle said flying relieved the stress of his pro baseball life. But to Stanger, it was life itself, and had been since he was a boy. Both were heading back to California when Lidle's plane slammed into a Manhattan high-rise, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006.
Mary Varela, left, mother of Melanie Lidle, wife of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, and Keri Welcher, right, a friend of Melanie Lidle, ask for privacy for the family Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, outside Lidle's home in Glendora, Calif. A small plane carrying Lidle slammed into a 50-story skyscraper Wednesday in New York, killing the pitcher and a second person.
New York Yankees' General Manager Brian Cashman speaks as Chief Operations Officer Lonn Trost looks on during a news conference at Yankee Stadium Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 in New York. A small plane carrying New York Yankee Cory Lidle slammed into a 50-story skyscraper Wednesday, apparently killing the pitcher and a second person in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the sidewalks.
National Transportation Safety Board member Debbie Hersman, right, is joined by Investigator-in-Charge Lorenda Ward, as she speaks to reporters during a news conference Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 in New York. A small plane carrying New York Yankee Cory Lidle slammed into a 50-story apartment building Wednesday after issuing a distress call, killing the pitcher and a second person.
The plane that crashed into a high-rise apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006, was a Cirrus SR20 similar to the one pictured.
The Belaire high-rise condo building on Manhattan's Upper East Side stands damaged after a small plane crash Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006 in New York. New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was said to be piloting the plane and died in the crash.