Recovery Effort Viewed from the Ferry on the Commute Home
Nine people were killed Saturday, when a private plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River. I saw the aftermath of the tragedy from my home office when I was on the phone as a guest on a live talk news program. For the past several days, divers from the New York Police Department and the Army Corps of Engineers have been working to recover the bodies of those who died in the crash as well as the remnants of the aircraft for official inspection by the National Transportation Safety Board. My commute home today was delayed as the ferry boats across the Hudson River were slowed to accommodate the U.S. Coast Guard boats involved in the recovery effort. It was a sobering reminder of a terrible tragedy.