Update: Breaking: Yankees Pitcher Feared Dead In UES Plane Crash

New York Yankees manager Joe Torre says the plane that crashed into a building in Manhattan is registered to team pitcher Cory Lidle.

UPDATE: WFAN’s Yankees beat reporter Sweeney Murti says that Lidle told him he was planning on flying home to California and that he got his pilot’s license just last year.

UPDATE #2: ESPN.com reports Lidle was flying the plane, is dead.

UPDATE #3: A story about Lidle’s recreational aviation hobby from Delaware Online, via Deadspin:

The Phillies weren’t enamored of pitcher Cory Lidle’s hobby of flying a four-seat airplane.