FAA sets new rules for airspace over Manhattan
Quick ReadNew flight rules spawned by the fatal helicopter and light plane crash over the Hudson River last summer are to take effect Thursday morning.
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
New rules setting up two airspace corridors over the Hudson River will go into effect Thursday, a development stemming from the deaths of nine people in a collision last August of a tourist helicopter and light plane, officials said Monday.
Randy Babbitt, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, told reporters Monday that the new rules require local flights to stay under 1,300...
