The 0.05 MHz readback that silenced the Piper - did they make it?
A pilot misreads a handoff and vanishes from the only voice channel over the Hudson River as another helicopter approaches - did they make it in time?The 0.05 MHz readback that silenced the Piper - did they make it?In this episode, we follow the minutes before two aircraft converged over the Hudson River on August 8, 2009, tracing radio handoffs, radar alerts, and the small decisions that set events in motion. The narrative asks how a five-hundredths-of-a-megahertz error and a missed radio call left a corridor designed for visual flight with no one listening.Date: August 8, 2009Location…
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