Hopefully this is just more hot air that comes from that fat gas bag:
Crash fuels Daley ire on no-fly zone
By Gary Washburn
Tribune staff reporter
Published October 13, 2006
Rebuffed by federal officials who have denied his request for a no-fly zone in Chicago for small planes, an angry Mayor Richard Daley said Thursday that the fatal crash in New York proves his point.
"It's harder to get on a [commercial] airplane than get in a single-engine plane or two-engine plane and fly anywhere in the United States," Daley said. "Now think of that. And we're supposed to protect America."
On Wednesday, New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and a flight instructor were killed when their private plane slammed into a Manhattan condominium high-rise.
Daley pushed, without success, for a small-plane flight prohibition over Chicago's downtown after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"How can a plane fly down the Hudson or East River close to the United Nations and no one knows about it?" the mayor asked. "But you cannot fly over Washington, D.C.," where a no-fly mandate was put into effect in 2001. "That is a special place. We're not special."
Daley questioned whether insurance rates for tall buildings will rise after Wednesday's accident.
"What happens now with insurance on high-rises? Does the federal government [say] `You have to triple your insurance per tenant in order to protect your high-rises?' That affects development in major cities."