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Old January 6th 06, 04:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Plane down in Hudson River

2759M? My logbook indicates I flew that plane from 4B6-1B1-N87 on
7/13/2001. As I recall, NY Approach wouldn't talk to me that day, so I
flew the corridor under the Class B. It looked like this:

http://bill.from.net/repub/dcp03766.jpg

Yeah. It is (or was) a Warrior. Happier times as indicated by other
sights in the photo.

Roy Smith wrote:
In article ,
Jose wrote:

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.



The Times also described the plane as "two-seat, single-engine Piper
Arrow 28, also known as a Piper Warrior". Elsewhere in the article,
they call it a "Piper Arrow". The FAA database says N2759M is a
PA-28-161. I can only guess that the reporter saw "PA" and figured
that must stand for "Piper Arrow".