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Originally Posted by SteveC  I'm not quite sure why you guys get all worked up about some TV networks working at selling ad time....  |
Because the random public thinks it's true and the politicians want to appease the random public for votes... so our freedoms get taken away because if it...
RIP to those that got killed and it's a terrible loss...
But..
All this talk about why planes shouldn't be allowed near NYC is based on ignorance. Especially disturbing is the "Former NTSB Director's" comment below...
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Former NTSB director Jim Hall said in a telephone interview he doesn't
understand how a plane could get so close to a New York City building
after Sept. 11.
"We're under a high alert and you would assume that if something like
this happened, people would have known about it before it occurred,
not after," Hall said.
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He was the NTSB director and didn't know about the VFR Corridor! Come On!!
He KNOWS planes fly up and down and around NYC all the time. The VFR Corridors are a fun and easy way to get through NYC's Class B and I've done it a few times... You don't need a flight plan and don't talk to ATC, you are on the "River CTAF" and self reporting your position to everyone else. Lidle was probably just doing a sight seeing flight around NYC and had a problem with the plane... it happens. Unfortunately he hit a building when he crashed...
If I hear one more uniformed voice making a big deal out of this I'm going to explode...
(can anyone see that I hate the media :-D )
-Erik Grabowski
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