Federal Aviation Administration: Traffic Controllers Did Not Contribute To Air Crash
A report by the National Transportation Safety Board says a controller at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey made a phone call after clearing the single-engine Piper plane for takeoff on August 8 at 11:48 a.m.
According to the Associated Press, the controller's conversation was about a dead cat that had been removed from the airport.
The report says the controller then told the pilot at 11:52 a.m. to contact Newark Liberty Airport, which is part of procedure, but that the pilot apparently did not contact Newark.
The plane and helicopter crashed a minute later, at 11:53 a.m.
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