Wrong Airplane turned at Wrong Place
No problem with a C-172 at 70 kt. and the newspapers are turning up a number of pilots who have done it just fine -- along with quite a few who have taken a pass.
They could have flown up East of Roosevelt Island and made the turn at the North end -- the river's 850 m. wide at that point and there's several blocks before the 50 story towers on the West bank start getting in the way of errant a/c.
Looks like an NPRM mandating a counter-clockwise circuit around Roosevelt Island and a maximum airspeed will be in the works.
Who would have dreamed of a box canyon accident in Manhattan?
Last edited by RatherBeFlying; 13th Oct 2006 at 21:24.
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