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Controller at center of air crash probe is LI man
Photo credit: NBC News | A video shot by a tourist shows a small plane soaring over the Hudson River before clipping a helicopter, sending them both plummeting toward the water.
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Helicopter, plane collide over Hudson
The Teterboro air traffic controller at the center of the investigation into the Aug. 8 midair crash over the Hudson River that killed nine people, including five Italian tourists, is a Suffolk County resident, according to sources.
Carlyle Dwayne Turner, 38, of Lake Grove, is the controller who handled the Piper PA-32, the fixed-wing airplane carrying a pilot and two passengers that took...
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