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ABC and NBC sent their Washington-based transportation correspondents to the banks of the Hudson River to report on the recovery of the wrecks of the weekend's midair collision. NBC's Tom Costello and ABC's Lisa Stark were on the Hoboken side as divers went down 60 ft to search for the last two bodies of the nine who were killed. CBS had Bob Orr stay in DC and narrate the videotape.
"The question now," suggested NBC's Costello: "Is the Hudson's airspace too congested?" The tourist helicopter and the joyriding Piper Lancer were two of an average of 225 daily flights in the three-mile-long, 1,100 ft high corridor. It is governed by "visual flight rules," CBS' Orr told us, "meaning the pilots, and not air traffic controlers, were solely responsible for keeping a safe distance."
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