Authorities to Probe Fatal Small Plane Crash in NYC

当局将调查小飞机在纽约机毁人亡事件

The investigation continues today (Thursday) into Wednesday's crash of a small plane into a high-rise apartment building in New York City.

The crash killed a member of the New York Yankees baseball team and one other man, said to be the baseball player's flight instructor.

Cory Lidle, a (34-year-old) pitcher who joined the Yankees just a few months ago, owned the single-engine aircraft (a Cirrus SR20). After taking off from a nearby small airport in New Jersey (Teterboro), the plane flew over New York harbor and circled the Statue of Liberty (one of the United States' best-known monuments), then headed north.

It is not clear whether Lidle or his flying instructor was at the controls when the light plane began flying erratically ( -- banking sharply from side to side -- ) then steered directly into a tall (40-story) apartment building.

一架小型飞机星期三撞上纽约市一栋高层公寓大楼一事的调查工作星期四还在继续。

撞机事件导致纽约洋基棒球队队员科里.利德尔和另外一人丧生，据说是他的飞行指导。

现年34岁的棒球投手利德尔几个月前刚加入扬基棒球队。他拥有一架单引擎飞机。飞机星期三从邻近的新泽西州的一个小机场起飞后，飞越纽约港，环绕飞过自由女神像后向北飞行。

目前还不清楚，这架飞机突然左右摇摆，并直接撞上40层高的公寓大楼时，究竟是利德尔还是他的飞行指导员在驾驶飞机。