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[0:07] ..." collision. Of the private plane and of a sightseeing helicopter. Over the Hudson River BC's Eric trustees. In New York where he's been watching. The events that have unfolded -- wonderful things for people who've had"...
[1:22] ..." piper cub. Was already in the air and going south along the Hudson River when the sightseeing helicopter. Suddenly popped up from its launch in Japan as you pointed -- thirtieth street in the Hudson River. The collision occurred shortly there after it appears that the plane hit the helicopter. But did the helicopters suddenly come up right"...
[2:15] ..." Philadelphia area. Was properly licensed so the pilot of the helicopter and New Zealand native who'd been in New York good doing the expecting helicopters for awhile. Both had. The proper medical clearance so it doesn't"...
[2:42] ..." Aaron the the head of the union of air traffic controllers at Newark airports it is not a usual -- ten -- twenty aircraft. To beat in the year between the George Washington bridge and the statue of liberty that's where this occurred and the Manhattan Borough president. Says that there are 25000. Helicopter trips a year. No one has talked"...
[0:00]" Seven bodies recovered two more still being sought as -- wreckage and answers in the deadly midair collision. Of the private plane and of a sightseeing helicopter. Over the Hudson River BC's Eric trustees. In New York where he's been watching. The events that have unfolded -- wonderful things for people who've had the chances I have to. -- Have realized is that there's an awful lot of traffic in not a lot of communication because you don't need a flight plan is -- say below a thousand feet. Is really sort of up to the pilots to communicate with each other and it doesn't always happen."
[0:36]" They have to see and be seen in there had been a lot of questions since this midair collision on Saturday at about whether. Pilots can truly State's safe without supervision of air traffic control using only VFR visual flight rules. They have to look out for obstacles and avoid them and clearly that did not happen on Saturday afternoon when the small planes taking off from Peterborough New Jersey. Coming out of the northwest. And itself down along the river right at the moment the sightseeing helicopter took off from. West thirtieth street in Manhattan and and in this collision happened not on a glorious day but also as you say a busy day for a -- traffic over the but the."
[1:19]" Now the Plavix taken off the private played from teeter -- the piper cub. Was already in the air and going south along the Hudson River when the sightseeing helicopter. Suddenly popped up from its launch in Japan as you pointed -- thirtieth street in the Hudson River. The collision occurred shortly there after it appears that the plane hit the helicopter. But did the helicopters suddenly come up right in the face of the of the south -- Africa."
[1:47]" That's exactly what investigators are trying to to have to figure out they've been studying photos they are seeking any video and they have a lot of eyewitness account when this happened on on such a beautiful Saturday afternoon. People -- about the jogging path the bike -- were all built up so. There were a lot of people who saw what happened and heard what happened and investigators have been interviewing people they've been seeking video. The plane had taken off just a couple of minutes before this collision. The pilots people -- the Philadelphia area. Was properly licensed so the pilot of the helicopter and New Zealand native who'd been in New York good doing the expecting helicopters for awhile. Both had. The proper medical clearance so it doesn't appear as -- inexperience. Or or you know unlicensed or anything improper like that went on. There's this seems like it according to at least the initial investigation from the NTSB. That that the that somebody can see somebody else."
[2:42]" Aaron the the head of the union of air traffic controllers at Newark airports it is not a usual -- ten -- twenty aircraft. To beat in the year between the George Washington bridge and the statue of liberty that's where this occurred and the Manhattan Borough president. Says that there are 25000. Helicopter trips a year. No one has talked to anyone it's a game of Russian roulette."
[3:04]" Yeah and and we've been talking to pilots to fly that route and one guy you know call that -- tunnel and had a really crowded congested tunnel -- we'd where where people don't always signal properly you can -- analogy and and it -- it's been called for before. To have more regulation. Of the of the skies over the Hudson especially below 1100 feet where it is. Outside the supervision of air traffic control those calls have been repeated now. Mayor Mike Bloomberg is against it he says it would hurt tourism in the economy. He himself as a pilot but there are others and and and you can bet that the NTSB. It's going to weigh in on this one to complete investigation."
[3:43]" And finally in the situation this morning. When they gonna get back in the water and what exactly looking for."
[3:49]" They're getting back in the water as we speak divers are going to return to an area just off. Hoboken on the New Jersey side and two days recovery effort could be the particularly challenging because we're told. -- while the helicopter wreckage has already been pulled up and put on appear for inspection. The wreckage from the from the piper. You decided down at about fifty feet of water it is murky visibility beneath the surfaces or one police captain compared to the public around in the dark. There are still two more bodies to recover that gets priority before the other wreckage of the plane comes up."
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