The two killed were New York Yankees baseball pitcher Cory Lidle and his flying instructor, officials from the baseball club said.
A New York police spokesman said that the while suicide could not be ruled out, there was nothing to suggest that this had been the cause of the crash, which is being investigated as an accident.
In a press conference shortly after the crash, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg sought to quell fears of any connection to a terrorist attack.
"There is nothing to suggest that anything remotely like terrorism was involved in this," he said.
When I heard the news report on tv this morning they said that when emergency services arrived at the scene it became evident that this was not an act of terrrorism. Why? Was it evident because these were AMERICAN baseball players and AMERICAN baseball players would never be involved in acts of terrorism (though what if it had been two black baseball players?) or is it because they were baseball players and therefore don't have a brain between them and should never have been allowed up in a plane unsupervised in the first place??
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