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FAA sets new rules for airspace over Manhattan

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...

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