Thus, an obvious question ran through my head: Why didn't Lidle activate the chute?
Ms. CINDY LIDLE(ph) (Voter): Oh, I don't like that kind of advertising at all.
Lidle and the CFI were flying at only 700 feet above the ground.
Ms. LIDLE: I think she's being real positive, but she's not being realistic.
On air, she speculated that Lidle and his instructor may have been doing dives and spins and aerobatics over Manhattan.
Members of the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association are asking why Lidle or his instructor did not use the parachute.
There on the Drudge Report was the awful headline about Lidle slamming into an apartment building on Manhattan's East 72nd Street.
Then, seeing the Manhattan skyline buildings looming dangerously close in the windshield, Lidle may have pulled up too fast and stalled the airplane.
Now add to it the fact that Lidle and his instructor were flying in one of busiest and most constricted airspaces in the world.
All Cirrus aircraft, including Lidle's and mine, have an airframe parachute.
Ms. LIDLE: One is not responsible for what one's friends do.
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