Posted on 03/10/2017 8:44:01 AM PST by pabianice
New York Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to launch a study into a spate of small plane crashes around New York City.
“We’re only a few months into 2017 and already we’ve seen two small plane crashes here in the New York metro area,” Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at a news conference in Manhattan on Sunday, referring to two accidents involving airplanes from Long Island last month.
In a letter to NTSB Chairman Christopher A. Hart, Schumer, the Senate minority leader, requested that the agency study New York’s small plane accidents over the past year to determine whether there are preventable patterns or trends. He also asked the agency to determine why there have been a number of small plane crashes, including 18 in New York last year, and how to prevent them.
Despite a steadily improving safety picture for general aviation over the last five years, so far this year there have been 30 fatal crashes in the United States involving small planes and helicopters, according to NTSB statistics. That compares with 20 fatal crashes through the first two months of 2016.
Here’s a question for pilots:
Charles Lindbergh was not the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, his distinction was that he did it solo and non-stop.
Does anybody fly solo across the Atlantic in a small civilian aircraft anymore?....................
Anything Chuckie calls for or requests should be answered by the WH with this :
Sorry Chuckie, but we are too busy trying to get all the nominees to the Presidents cabinet and SCOTUS confirmed. We don't have the people in place right now to deal with requests from congressmen. Get back to us once all of our nominees are confirmed. Good Day
Yes, there is a small group of entrepreneurial pilots that ferry aircraft (sales occurring across the pond). In both directions. I know a guy that does it, mostly going to/from Germany from the Northeast.
It takes a great deal of planning, and unlike Lindbergh, the legs are a tad shorter (use of Gander, etc).
Planes undergo mods for spare fuel, and avionics for the trip. Pilot watches the weather for a good window.
Was this last Sunday, or is this report being given two days before a news conference that hasn't taken place yet?
I thought all Freepers already knew this loser's routine. He holds a press conference every Sunday morning just to get air time in front of New Yorkers. If there is nothing of any consequence for him to address, he'll make something up out of thin air ... like calling for the U.S. Department of Health & Services to conduct a study about the health impacts of bathing too infrequently, or a "disastrous series" of two small plane crashes in two months.
The text you posted says that there were 18 in the past year. Is that a lot for New York or not?
Whats the deal Chuck? Is small planes how you get back and forth to Washington?
What a piece of slime!
Not only had engine powered vehicles and aircraft had not been invented when the Constitution was drafted, but it remains that the states have never expressly constitutonally delegated to the corrupt feds the specific power to oversee transportation safety.
In fact, consider that regardless that the 14th Congress made a bill to appropriate revenues to build roads and canals, President James Madison vetoed the bill. Madison indicated in the constitutionally required veto explanation (1.7.2) that there are no clauses in Congress’s Article I, Section 8-limited powers to justify the bill.
Veto of federal public works bill
Again, while the NTSB is probably a very good idea, it is based on stolen state powers imo.
So while Sen. Schumer’s concern about plane crashes is commendable, low-information, post-17th Amendment ratification Schumer is unsurprisingly helping to unconstitutionally expand the federal government’s limited powers with his call for investigation of small plane crashes imo.
Let’s see, around NY — liberal. Don’t need a study, liberals committing suicide or being distracted by the fact Trump is president. Win Win
How many car crashes have there been? Someone needs to call for an investigation.
How many car crashes in the same time?
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