The pilot's wife is ready to kill him, and he feels like an idiot.
Excellent reporting bt Blomquist, Celona and Neuman of the NY Post -- they beat Newsday on facts, and it's in Newsday's back yard.
If you read the links I posted, they advised pilots like Mr Langone to fully familiarise themselves with the airspace (which is complicated) and the procedures before flying the Hudson corridor. Poor Langone was trying it for the first time, on impulse and unprepared.
It looks like everywhere that Langone flew, except for when he busted the LGA Class B (TCA, you stuck-in-the-past geezers [grin]) he was legal, including his ring around the Statue of Liberty. You don't have to talk to anyone to fly in the VFR corridor -- one reason it's there is so planes without radios can get through NYC -- but it's a really, really, bad idea to do this without planning it first. A little study would have saved Mr Langone a lot of embarrassment and trouble.
In about a week or two he will have a letter from the FAA. He will not like what it says...
I'm a little concerned about Mr Looney of the NY Police wanting more restriction. These little planes are not a threat -- Langone's Mooney weighs a whopping 3000 lbs or so, of which probably 250 lb is fuel. We all remember the Cessna that smashed into the building in Tampa, and the Cessna that a nutball kamikaze'd into the White House. In both of these cases damage to the building was minimal, but the suicide attacker was successful at the suicide part.
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