what i want to know is how a young flight instructor from california would EVER think of entering the NYC class B vfr corridor without some type of training or experience. it's one thing for a pilot to go on that type of endeavor uneducated, but for someone excercising the capacity of flight INSTRUCTOR to jump into something so complex and "local" is mind-boggling.
oh yeah, about the parachute, reporters are complaining on the news that it didn't "automatically deploy." well, after hitting a building, i don't thing anything is going to be doing much on that aircraft. not to mention, they expect it to be effective at ~500 feet?