Yankee’s plane crashed into home of woman hurt in '97 Macy’s parade

[mawilson 2,133]

NEW YORK — A woman whose apartment was burned in the high-rise crash

of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle’s plane was the victim of another

frightening, bizarre and high-profile Manhattan accident years earlier, when

a lamppost knocked over by a parade float seriously injured her.

Kathleen Caronna and her family were unhurt in Wednesday’s crash, which

killed Lidle and his flight instructor, Tyler Stanger. But the engine of the

Cirrus SR20 landed in her bedroom, which went up in flames minutes before

she would arrived home, her relatives told the Daily News in Friday’s editions.

“How do you go through two major things like this?” Caronna’s sister-in-law,

Lisa Brown, told the paper. “It’s spooky. It’s very spooky.”

Caronna was critically injured during the 1997 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

when the mammoth Cat in the Hat balloon went out of control and knocked

part of a lamppost onto her head. The then-33-year-old investment analyst

lay in a coma for nearly a month.

Caronna had been watching the parade with her husband and infant son at

72nd Street and Central Park West. The plane crash occurred at 72nd and

York Avenue, several blocks east.

The phone rang busy Friday at the apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

that she shares with her husband, Ignazio Massimo, and their son, now 9.

Source

[...]

Kathleen Caronna, a Manhattan resident, suffered a skull fracture from falling

debris and was in a coma for nearly a month.

Caronna, who is still recovering and says the accident caused permanent brain

damage, filed a $395 million lawsuit against the city, Macy's and the lamppost

manufacturer.

FOLLOWING UP; Woman Hurt in Parade Will Finally Go to Court

By GLENN COLLINS

Judge Joan Madden of New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan to hear trial

in suit filed by Kathleen Caronna against Macy's for damages sustained during

Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1998

Woman Hurt in '97 Macy's Parade Settles Suit

By SUSAN SAULNY

Kathleen Caronna settles lawsuit with Macy's, New York City and city contractor

for undisclosed amount; Caronna was injured during Thanksgiving Day parade

in 1997 when light pole was knocked into her by balloon caught in wind gust.

[Marc and Olga 0]

NEW YORK — A woman whose apartment was burned in the high-rise crash

of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle’s plane was the victim of another

frightening, bizarre and high-profile Manhattan accident years earlier, when

a lamppost knocked over by a parade float seriously injured her.

Kathleen Caronna and her family were unhurt in Wednesday’s crash, which

killed Lidle and his flight instructor, Tyler Stanger. But the engine of the

Cirrus SR20 landed in her bedroom, which went up in flames minutes before

she would arrived home, her relatives told the Daily News in Friday’s editions.

“How do you go through two major things like this?” Caronna’s sister-in-law,

Lisa Brown, told the paper. “It’s spooky. It’s very spooky.”

Caronna was critically injured during the 1997 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

when the mammoth Cat in the Hat balloon went out of control and knocked

part of a lamppost onto her head. The then-33-year-old investment analyst

lay in a coma for nearly a month.

Caronna had been watching the parade with her husband and infant son at

72nd Street and Central Park West. The plane crash occurred at 72nd and

York Avenue, several blocks east.

The phone rang busy Friday at the apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

that she shares with her husband, Ignazio Massimo, and their son, now 9.

Source

[...]

Kathleen Caronna, a Manhattan resident, suffered a skull fracture from falling

debris and was in a coma for nearly a month.

Caronna, who is still recovering and says the accident caused permanent brain

damage, filed a $395 million lawsuit against the city, Macy's and the lamppost

manufacturer.

FOLLOWING UP; Woman Hurt in Parade Will Finally Go to Court

By GLENN COLLINS

Judge Joan Madden of New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan to hear trial

in suit filed by Kathleen Caronna against Macy's for damages sustained during

Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1998

Woman Hurt in '97 Macy's Parade Settles Suit

By SUSAN SAULNY

Kathleen Caronna settles lawsuit with Macy's, New York City and city contractor

for undisclosed amount; Caronna was injured during Thanksgiving Day parade

in 1997 when light pole was knocked into her by balloon caught in wind gust.

Maybe it's another Kathleen Caronna?

I know, not f'in likely but WOW! Lucky she was not home.

[Fandango 1,439]

having a lampost fall on your head and being in a coma is not something to sneeze at......

[mawilson 2,133]

having a lampost fall on your head and being in a coma is not something to sneeze at......

Totally. How unlucky can you get?

[Fandango 1,439]

having a lampost fall on your head and being in a coma is not something to sneeze at......

Totally. How unlucky can you get?

Well, considering she's still alive, I'd say she's totally lucky.

But I don't understand the whole 'karma's a biotch' statement.

[Veiled Princess 1]

I don't understand the whole 'karma's a biotch' statement.

I was thinking the same thing.

[mawilson 2,133]

But I don't understand the whole 'karma's a biotch' statement.

I find it rather ironic that she got hit by a lamppost, sued the city for millions

of dollars, used the money to buy an apartment on the Upper East Side,

only to have a plane crash into it a few years later. If it's not bad karma,

I don't know what is.

[Jenn! 918]

If it's not bad karma,

I don't know what is.

No such thing as karma, only coincidence.

[rebeccajo 14]

I think she needs to move out of New York....

[JenT 0]

If it's not bad karma,

I don't know what is.

No such thing as karma, only coincidence.

I don't believe in either. Everything happens for a reason.

But I sure wouldn't want to ever be her neighbor...

[almaty 19]

If it's not bad karma,

I don't know what is.

No such thing as karma, only coincidence.

I don't believe in either. Everything happens for a reason.

But I sure wouldn't want to ever be her neighbor...

yeap.....unbelieveable...she have stories to tell her grandkids, if she lives that long

[Irisheyes 0]

I don't get the bad karma bit either.......Bad luck and a little irony maybe......but I think the settlement she got after having part of a lamp post fall on her head and spending months in a coma, not to mention the hospital bills, was kinda deserved.

[no name 1]

I don't get the bad karma bit either.......Bad luck and a little irony maybe......but I think the settlement she got after having part of a lamp post fall on her head and spending months in a coma, not to mention the hospital bills, was kinda deserved.

[Fandango 1,439]

I don't get the bad karma bit either.......Bad luck and a little irony maybe......but I think the settlement she got after having part of a lamp post fall on her head and spending months in a coma, not to mention the hospital bills, was kinda deserved.

me three

[mawilson 2,133]

I don't get the bad karma bit either.......Bad luck and a little irony maybe......but I think the settlement she got after having part of a lamp post fall on her head and spending months in a coma, not to mention the hospital bills, was kinda deserved.

I'm sure she thought it was deserved but her karma clearly disagreed