I don't know anything about his abilities as a pitcher, but as a pilot he sucked balls. The plane was in the air less than 15 minutes, he supposedly radioed in very soon after takeoff that he had some problems- he hit a building in fucking manhattan for chrissake at the 30th floor- maybe 350 ft above msl.

This dude was fucked up as a football bat.

He should have been able to turn the plane around and get back to teterboro or whatever field he took off from using his common sense and his compass alone. To be that low tells me he didn't set his altimeter before he took off, either.

Actually, what it sounds like to me is that he was a whiz-bang pilot with a nice electronic GPS chartplotter and altimeter and other instruments, and one or more of them failed.

People who can't navigate and fly a plane, when required, using only a compass, wristwatch and paper chart need to stick to driving boats- at least then you can shut down and think it over.

10 to 1 the final FAA and NTSB reports will list pilot error as the cause of this crash. Any takers?