By Colleen Long
The Associated Press

NEW YORK CITY — A single-engine plane crashed into an Upper East Side high-rise Wednesday, killing four people, raining debris on the sidewalks below and rattling New Yorkers' nerves exactly one month after the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. Meanwhile, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press that a member of the New York Yankees organization was aboard the plane that crashed into a Manhattan highrise. And FAA records show the plane was registered to pitcher Cory Lidle.

The four deaths were confirmed by the city medical examiner's office. There was no word yet on injuries linked to the crash on an overcast October afternoon, which sent thick black smoke soaring above the city skyline and flames shooting out of apartments above the tony neighborhood.