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| Controller joked on phone as plane |
| An air traffic controller was joking on the phone about barbecuing a dead cat minutes before a small plane collided with a tour helicopter
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 20-August-2009
2:41:4 AM |
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An air traffic controller was joking on the phone about barbecuing a dead cat minutes before a small plane collided with a tour helicopter over New York City's Hudson River, transcripts obtained by The Associated Press show.
Nine people, three members of a Pennsylvania family in the plane and five Italian tourists and a pilot in the helicopter, died in the August 8 accident.
The draft government transcripts show that shortly after the controller at nearby Teterboro Airport in New Jersey cleared the single-engine Piper for takeoff, he made a phone call to the airport's operations office and remained on the phone until just before the plane collided with the helicopter.
The transcripts conform with a sequence of events laid out last week by the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the accident, although they differ slightly on the exact time events occurred
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