Air traffic controller joked about cooking a cat moments before Hudson River crash

eh. everybody makes mistakes.. and jokes about cooking cats.

i dont know what everybody's problem with CATS is.
Hell I personally LOVE CATS..........They taste like CHICKEN ! !

all a horrible acident not matter what the guy was talking about beforehand. he could have been talking about ANYTHING before this. doesn't matter. get a better story.

I don't think that the ATC is at fault no matter what conversation he may have been having. These small aircraft are basically flying by visual flight rules in a very busy airspace. They each seemed to be in the others blind spots and it is a very unfortunate accident.

So was he going to fry it or bake it maybe bar-b-que it like the ausse's do. I like to put them in a slow cooker with some taters and carrots an a little sprigg of saffron with rice

i think this is the most irrelevant, trivial, and stupidest article i have ever seen on current

That was a tad confusing on who is at fault and why. What kept appearing is how the Helicopter was not on radar or was not showing up or appeared only moments before the crash on radar. It seems there was a problem with the helicopter more so and then the air traffic controller's talking might have compacted the issue, but was not the main cause.

Horrible title for this article. Like it really matters if this guy joked about shooting JFK before a plane crash.

Whether the blame can be laid on the controller I don't know, but the guy shouldn't have been on the phone when he had traffic in the air. That's on a par with a fighter pilot for multi-tasking; seems to me you'd have to give it your full attention. Especially as radar is height specific and craft coming up into it can just pop up on the screen; as apparently the helicopter did.

I couldn't really tell with the video, but it looked to me like the pilot of the aircraft was rising slightly, and it seemed like the chopper was going up too. Looked to me like the chopper was down and to the left of the aircraft - not the direction a pilot would normally look. How the chopper pilot didn't see him I have no clue. Looks like he should have. But whoever took that was moving the camera around so much it was hard to tell.

Tragic mishap either way.

seems he cooked some italian cats in the process.

Catastrophic!

give the guy a break, it was not his fault. i think they are just looking for someone to blame...

Whatever. Weren't you picking your nose and talking on your cell phone before you crashed into the car in front of you? C'mon. Another stupid "story."

He has a stressful job. He made a joke. Let's not crucify the guy.

it will come down to two words "PILOT ERROR".......................bet the farm on it.

Those small craft weren't his responsibility were they?

Not saying it was all right for him to do, just checkin'

Has the internets taught us nothing?

DO NOT F WITH THE F'ING CATS - THEY ARE BETTER THAN US.

OK!?