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Offline Jason

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Aircraft crashes into Manhattan high-rise
« on: October 11, 2006, 03:40:15 PM »
This isn't going to be good...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/11/plane.crash/index.html

There has been a lot of speculation by many media outlets thusfar...reporting that it was first a "Fixed wing aircraft flying VFR" and then revising their report to state that it was a "helicopter."  It looks like they're back to the original story.

In any event, this isn't just bad for those who were involved, but GA itself.

Sigh...



Offline selmacf7

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Re: Aircraft crashes into Manhattan high-rise
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2006, 04:41:24 PM »
How long do you think it'll be before they realize it's 10/11. Be prepared for media ass-hattery.

Offline selmacf7

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Re: Aircraft crashes into Manhattan high-rise
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2006, 04:56:53 PM »
Nevermind. Apparently a yankees pitcher is dead.

Offline KSYR-pjr

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Re: Aircraft crashes into Manhattan high-rise
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2006, 06:57:59 PM »
Passur's airport monitor has the radar track of his Cirrus SR20 departing Teterboro, and then about ten minutes later has an aircraft going up the East River and turning around, then disappearing.

Go here:

http://www4.passur.com/teb.html

Set the date to October 11th and the time to 14:30.  The first aircraft that appears just north of TEB is the Cirrus.  Click on it to see the tail ID on the right.   

If you expand the view to 20 miles, you can see the aircraft turn down the Hudson river, then disappear (which is really the radar temporarily losing the aircraft due to the low altitude).  You then see a "General Aviation" aircraft about the same position, presumably the same aircraft, track down around the Statue of Liberty and up to the entrance of the East River. 

There are some confusing moments where aircraft targets appear and disappear, but around 14:39 or so, you see an aircraft going north up the East River, then turn around and disappear.  The target never reappears.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2006, 07:09:25 PM by KSYR-pjr »

Offline petrovcic

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Re: Aircraft crashes into Manhattan high-rise
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2006, 07:52:01 AM »
Where cant i find a live ATC before crash,and after.?