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John Hawkins/Stuff An Independent review of Invercargill Airport's recommends it should not change its current levels of air traffic control. [File photo] An Independent review of Invercargill Airport’s controlled airspace recommends that the staffed control tower should stay in light of an Airways announcement to withdraw from the airport. In May, Airways New Zealand announced its decision to withdraw its services from regional airports in Hawke's Bay, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Rotorua and Invercargill. The results of a three-month review for Invercargill Airport, undertaken by Astal Avia...

>> yeah, a 500-foot ceiling in manhattan, it's pretty dangerous to consider flying across the island of manhattan with a 500-foot ceiling, no question about that. and the rules for helicopters are different. visual flight rules that means the allows that allow you to fly are pretty simply stated for helicopters, remain clear of the clouds and you have to fly at a speed that would avoid a collision with some object or another aircraft. so in other words, because helicopters can fly so slowly, the minimums are different and so while this might have been technically a legal vfr flight, if that he...

Crashed his single engine plane into a building on 72nd street, there was a lot of concern that might have been some terrorism. it turned out to be a horrifying accident, he ran out of fuel. again, after that the faa came out and said here's the deal, if you of the east river in two of the river those are called vf are corridors, visual flight rules meaning that you have to,u are not talking about being on radar you are talking about visual flight rules and you have to be 1,100 feet above the river and you cannot go over the city unless you have a special permission. we flew many times with ny...

>> federal officials are investigating the deadly midair collision of two small planes that happened just outside dallas. police say the two small planes were operating under visual flight rules. they were not in contact with an air traffic controller. three people sadly were killed in that midair collision. >> now to the u.s. response to alleged russian hacking. we're hearing more praise from congressional republicans for president obama's sanctions. arkansas senator tom cotton is supporting the sanction but joins a growing group of lawmakers who say this action should have come a long time a...

Chance they can make it. >> reporter: the oer crashed onto a busy road. >> one o them came pretty much straight down. the other one had a little control, but he was coming down. there was no stopping it. >> reporter: three people dead. they have not been identified. the ntsb says both planes were flying under visual flight rules and not in contact with any control tower after leaving the aerocountrairport. in the highly populated area of mckinney, texas, dozens documented the aftermath. >> i was devastated. it was so terrible. i was so scared and felt, i don't know, i was just shocked. >> repo...