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"Peter R." wrote in message
... As Gary indicated, aircraft flying up the east side of Manhattan in the VFR corridor are required to turn around and fly back to the south, as the corridor ends around the north end of Roosevelt Island. How does an aircraft hit the north face of a building along the river there? One possibility is that the pilot lost control of the aircraft during the turn, say due to a stall. Another possibility is that the pilot misjudged the point at which to begin the turn. My guess is that they flew too fast and failed to remember that the turn radius increases with the square of the airspeed. When they saw the buildings coming, they banked steeply, causing them to descend and possibly stall. (A witness on the ground who is also a pilot reported seeing the plane in an unusually steep bank just before impact.) --Gary |
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