Controller from LI joked about cat before Hudson crash
Photo credit: AP Photo | A small jet waits for clearance to take off from Teterboro Airport. On Aug. 8, 2009, an air traffic controller at Teterboro Airport was joking on the phone seconds before the deadly midair collision over the Hudson River.
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An air traffic controller joked in a phone call about barbecuing a dead cat minutes before the deadly Aug. 8 midair collision over the Hudson River, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
"We got plenty of gas in the grill?" the Teterboro Airport controller asked twice in a conversation with a woman at the airport's operations center, according to a transcript. " . . . Fire...
