Jose wrote in news:WGHuf.4910$fO5.4025
@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com:

I'm surprised they couldn't have
glided to shore

The NY Times reported that they glided engineless for eleven minutes.
They'd have to be a balloon, or at umpty thousand feet. Of course, the
Times may have gotten it wrong.

Jose

I don't think the NY Times story is accurate.

http://www4.passur.com/hpn.html

Set the date to January 2, 2006 @ 11:46 pm. Set the Map Range to 40 miles.
You'll see a plane turning around over the Hudson at about the Palisades.
Click on it - it is a General Aviation plane that will flop up and down
between 600-900ft until about 11:51pm when it starts consistently going
down to about 400' and then disappears... Of course, it's not completely
clear when the engine went out, and how long it manuevered after it
disappeared off the radar, but I think 11 minutes might be inaccurate.

Even the NY Times is not immune.