Apartment dweller sues Cory Lidle's estate for destroying his apartment

A couple of weeks ago there was a thread about Cory Lidle's widow suing
Cirrus and a bunch of other deep pockets for damages after her husband's
Cirrus SR20 attempted to perform a 180 degree turn over the East River and
slammed into an apartment building on the east side of Manhattan, killing the
NY Yankees pitcher and a flight instructor.

Someone had posted a reply in that thread that outlined a scenario where an
apartment dweller in the damaged building sued the estate of the pitcher.

Looks like real life is imitating fiction:

From the USA Today's website, in part (copyright USAToday):

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Lidle estate sued over plane crash

(http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...t_N.htm?csp=34)

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephane Sparta was at home in his 31st floor apartment when
New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle's small plane crashed into the floor
below.

The plane didn't hit Sparta, "but it gave him quite a shock," said his
lawyer, David C. Cook. "It came as close to giving him a haircut as you can
get."

Sparta, an architect, has sued Lidle's estate, claiming his home was
destroyed and he was emotionally injured by the crash.

Sparta says in court papers that he was forced to abandon his apartment after
Lidle's Cirrus SR-20 plane crashed into the building on Manhattan's Upper
East Side on Oct. 11, 2006. Sparta's court papers say parts of the airplane
wreckage "exploded" into his living room, "setting the contents on fire and
otherwise destroying the apartment and the property therein."

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Peter