Maybe more facts will emerge. But judging from the story and the map, it looks to me as if the light plane was at fault. Tourist and commuter helicopters regularly take off from pads by the Hudson River (and the East River). Teterboro Airport is well north of that. And, unless we haven’t been told something to explain it, a small, private plane has no business flying over the mid Hudson just off of Manhattan.
I suspect that the pilot or passengers wanted to view the Manhattan skyline. Big mistake.
Only in a secondary sense, Cicero. The real fault should be assigned to George Bush.
The rules for general aviation over the Hudson River have been in effect for thirty years!
The Hudson river is a major thoroughfare for light planes . It's also extremely crowded.
The Piper Saratoga involved in the incident is a relatively fast plane with a long cowl so if he was flying slow it would be difficult to see directly in front.
Helicopter tours have reserved airspace so I suppose whoever was in the wrong place was at fault