What may have caused Cory Lidles plane crash?
The fact is, small planes are flying around at low altitude above New York City all the time. Two main sightseeing routes, one above the Hudson River and another above the East River, let the pilots of small planes take a tour over the city at about 1,100 feet, where they stay out of the way of the massive amounts of commercial traffic going in and out of La Guardia, JFK and other major airports in the vicinity. These routes can be somewhat challenging, and the one over the East River is considered the more difficult of the two since it’s narrower, just a half-mile wide in some places, and more closely lined with skyscrapers. Lidle’s plane was flying that route. Air traffic control can see these small planes on its radar as long as they’re equipped with the right transponder, but unless one of the planes diverts from its path or sends out a distress signal, air-traffic c
