If this was intentional, will a restriction of general aviation be next?

I have wondered at times if the chimp and DHS will see fit to reign in general aviation at some point. It wouldn't be too difficult to use the common Cessna to deliver anthrax over a football game or other public event.

Just speculating here, but it's not overly implausible, IMO.

Who owns them? How many are there? What restrictions are there on flying?

...How come the FAA doesn't seem to have any idea what's going on when they crash into buildings?

about an hour and a half ago or thereabouts?

What is the FAA supposed to be able to release to the public to appease you an hour and a half after this kind of tragedy?

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He can fly wherever and whenever he wants. Of course he is licensed by the FAA and needs an Instrument Rating (IFR) to fly in certain conditions. And there are often flight restrictions (permanent ones in certain areas like over military bases, and temporary ones like when Bush is flyin' around), but pilots are responsible for knowing what those are and staying out of those areas.

We had a guy fly way too low over a pier and a beach here a couple years ago, scared the heck out of people. His tail # was noted and he had his license yanked.

Regarding this accident today, if the guy was flying IFR, he would have had to file and IFR Flight Plan and would have had what they call "Flight Following" where he is being watched on someone's radar, to make sure he's not in the path of any other planes. It will be interesting to see what the deal was here.

Good to hear somebody who sort-of knows this stuff is unsure what the deal was. Makes me feel less stupid.

My brother who lives in Manhattan says its gray and drizzly there but the visibility is good, he can see the Empire State Bldg from his office and it's a few miles away.

Only stating a question I've had since 9/11: why did the feds (try to) make it more difficult to enact an act of terrorism only from commercial aircraft, while leaving small planes completely out of the equation?

...get that close to a building in NYC...deliberate or not, I guess it's a good thing all those Homeland Security dollars went to protect petting zoos across the American midwest

fleet to prevent this kind of thing, accident or intentional. Which would be a stupid move. You could probably do much more damage by stealing a tanker truck of gasoline and ramming something than any general aviation plane could do.

Do we stop the mail? Farming? Water treatment? There are many ways to deliver a terrorist attack. I'm not going to live my life in fear bcause of a few schmoe's. What are the odds of me being killed in a terror attack on US soil? Probably more than me being hit by lightning, or a rogue comet.