Yahoo news (and I realize all the large news sources are saying different things) says that NORAD wasn't tracking this plane. (Yeah, that's the other think -- Yahoo news is saying it's a plane.)
I didn't mean they tracked this flight. I meant NORAD scrambled the fighters in response to the incident as a precaution. I saw this confirmed by an FAA spokesperson.
Has everyone heard by now that it was a plane, believed to have been flown by Cory Lidle of the Yankees? The mayor wouldn't confirm it was Lidle (they need to notify next of kin), but CNN was reporting it far and wide, had a quote from Torre, and interviewed a Phillies announcer who if I heard the whole thing had been a good friend of Lidle's. Reportedly Lidle's passport was among the debris found on the sidewalk outside the BelAire.
An NTSB spokesman said the plane belonged to Lidle, and George Steinbrenner confirmed that Lidle had been killed.
It was flying on visual landmarks, from the reports I've seen. Private planes aren't required to be visible on radar, are they?
I write it to [my address] Associates, LLP. I think even when Related was my landlord the checks went to [my address] Associates, LLP.
Oh yeah. We just switched from writing the rent to the management company (so I knew their name) to [my address] Associates. But I now know the landlord is actually Ravi.
CNN has a breaking news banner: "New York Yankees manager Joe Torre says the plane that crashed into a building in Manhattan is registered to team pitcher Cory Lidle."
Oh, man. I was wondering, as I was just fast forwarding through the breaking news coverage they had on instead of Ellen Degeneres, why suddenly they were having sports on.
It was flying on visual landmarks, from the reports I've seen. Private planes aren't required to be visible on radar, are they?
Not if they're on VFR [link] (visual flight rules), which he was, but I'll admit to surprise that Manhattan isn't under air traffic control at all times (which disallows VFR flights).
It was flying on visual landmarks, from the reports I've seen. Private planes aren't required to be visible on radar, are they?
They'd still show up. Aircraft flying by visual flight rules (VFR) have a choice. They can request that air traffic control keep track of them, in which case ATC would assign a unique transponder frequency to them for the duration of the plane's time in the controlled area, or else the pilot would set the transponder to a standard transponder frequency. Either way the plane would show up on ATC radar.
Since the 1980’s, planes and helicopters have been allowed to fly over the East River, as well as the Hudson River, below 1,100 feet, without special permission. They fly under “visual flight rules,” meaning they avoid collisions by visually keeping track of other aircraft, and maneuvering to avoid conflicts.
Yeah, I saw that - I just thought the rules would have tightened after 9/11.
I just thought the rules would have tightened after 9/11.
If for nothing else, they'd probably need the VFR corridors for helicopters.
