After Hudson crash, lawmakers seek FAA rules changes
Photo credit: AP | Pallbearers place coffins into three of five waiting hearses at the Frank E. Campbell funeral home in Manhattan as mourners gather to honor five Italian tourists who were killed in a sightseeing helicopter when it collided with an aircraft over the Hudson River Saturday killing nine. (Aug. 12, 2009)
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Federal aviation regulators should temporarily ban flights below 1,100 feet in the Hudson River corridor, more than a dozen members of Congress said Wednesday.
Led by Democrat Rep. Jerrold Nadler - whose 8th District includes Manhattan and Brooklyn - the representatives called for banning tourist helicopter flights and general aviation planes until FAA regulators devise a way for traffic in...
