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The National Transportation Safety Board says that the air traffic controller on duty at Teterboro Airport during the crash between a small plane and sightseeing helicopter had a "light" workload and "nothing should have prevented him" from alerting the small plane's pilot about aircraft in his route. The crash, which killed nine people, occurred as the controller were on the telephone, joking about a dead cat. Additionally, the NTSB has made suggestions for air safety over the Hudson River, "including having helicopters and planes fly at separate altitudes" and that "pilots who are to fly in the Hudson River air corridor and around the Statue of Liberty complete a special training course."
NTSB: Controller Should Have Warned Small Plane
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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Altitude limits are the right idea. No helicopter should be able to ascend straight up to over 1k feet without some procedures in place.
All light aircraft in the corridor should have a minimum altitude, all choppers a maximum w/buffer between the two - choppers being able to move higher after clearing with ATC.
Additionally, the NTSB has made suggestions for air safety over the Hudson River, "including having helicopters and planes fly at separate altitudes" and that "pilots who are to fly in the Hudson River air corridor and around the Statue of Liberty complete a special training course."
and no one thought about this earlier? its only common sense. but of course we wait for people to die to do something about any problem.
Union workers...
Maybe the pilot was texting.
I heard from a controller that the actual altitude of the crash was 700 feet, as opposed to the 1,100 feet originally reported.
Radar usually only picks up aircraft once they get above 500ft, and with the helicopter climbing, there might not have been any time for even an attentive controller to see the craft suddenly appear and notify.