Originally Posted by
Kalium Chloride
For those debating the route the aircraft took, this
JFK tracking website appears to show that between 13:01 and 13:07, a GA aircraft comes in from the right of the picture, at a height of 1,400ft, then turns left and rapidly descends, gets to about 300ft and vanishes.
(To view, set clock to about 13:00, range 20 miles, then press 'Start' - then click on the aircraft to generate an ID and altitude). It comes passes the red "NEW" of "NEW YORK"
It's been suggested (on another board) that this may been a float-equipped Caravan than runs from the Hamptons into NYC and lands on the East River. Never heard of such a service myself, but in any event, media here is showing the accident aircraft off TEB and heading for the Statue of Liberty, and after a 360 around it, it supposedly heads NNE from there...
Who knows...