Katrina Recovery Efforts Get a Lift from Business Aviation
Words and pictures cannot fully convey what has happened to the city of New Orleans.
Photo taken from a Cessna 172 1,500 feet above New Orleans only begins to show the destruction the city suffered. (Photo: David A. Lombardo)
Photo taken from a Cessna 172 1,500 feet above New Orleans only begins to show the destruction the city suffered. (Photo: David A. Lombardo)

Words and pictures cannot fully convey what has happened to the city of New Orleans. Several miles away at 5,500 feet, the air in the cabin of the Cessna 172 told us we were approaching the city before the haze let up enough for us to see it. Matt Thompson, a contract King Air 350 corporate pilot based in Baton Rouge, was flying the aircraft. He’d made it clear that it was restricted airspace and the aircraft couldn’t descend below 5,500 feet.


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