On August 8, 2009, I was driving in Hoboken New Jersey when a tire fell out of the sky into the road directly in front of our car. It was the result of the mid-air collision between a tourist helicopter and a small plane.
On August 8, 2009, at 11:53 a.m. nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River near Frank Sinatra Park in Hoboken, New Jersey. The aircraft was in an area known as the “Hudson River VFR Corridor”, which extends from the surface of the river to altitudes of 800 to 1,500 feet (240 to 460 m) at various locations along the Hudson River in the immediate area of New York City. Within this corridor, aircraft operate under visual flight rules (VFR), under which the responsibility to see and avoid other air traffic rests with the individual pilots rather than with the air traffic controller.
Here is my story as it was on the news.
