New York City ? Ilana Benhuri remembers her first thought as the small plane crashed through her apartment window, “I was dead.”

She had been baking an apple pie for her 12-year-old son’s school and doing some paperwork at a desk in her four-bedroom apartment. She never saw the plane carrying New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle but felt it hit.

“The explosion threw me up in the air,” Benhuri, 50, said Friday as she left New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center a month after arriving with severe burns. “I was screaming. I could not stop screaming. I did not know what it was.”

Lidle and flight instructor Tyler Stanger were killed when the plane slammed nose-first into Benhuri’s 30th floor apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Oct. 11.

Benhuri suffered burns below her waist.