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...people onboard the Cirrus SR20 plane, Lidle and a flight instructor, were killed when the state-of-the-art plane plowed into a 42-story New York apartment building. Though initial reports indicated that the plane issued a distress call, in a late-night press conference Deborah Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board did not report such a call. Hersman said the NTSB was just beginning its investigation, including looking at the aircraft, the engine and the actions of the pilot...
...unclear who was actually flying the airplane, and who was monitoring air traffic control, though the NTSB's Hersman said Lidle had gotten his license on Feb. 9, 2006. It is standard practice in an airplane emergency for one pilot to focus on keeping the plane stable and aloft while the other pilot handles the radio and troubleshoots the emergency...
...There was planning discussion, both by the air traffic controllers and the crew, conversations with each other about using Runway 22 for departure," National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Deborah Hersman said Monday on CNN. "We do know from the information that we have obtained on scene, gathered evidence, documentation and from the flight data recorder, that the runway that the crew used was Runway 26." The two runways at the Lexington airport cross in an X pattern. To get from the terminal to the head of Runway 22, the airport's 7,000-ft.-long main strip, the plane...
...November 2001. But safety experts are worried about the future. They claim that under the Bush Administration the board has been stripped of most of its aviation expertise and that it will move further in that direction if President Bush's fourth nominee for the five-member board, Deborah Hersman, is approved. Hersman, 33, a Senate aide who has dealt mainly with truck and train issues, will replace current NTSB member John Goglia, 59, who has spent 30 years working on aviation safety and is the only airline mechanic ever to serve on the board...