don t have too much more, as we said. that s a preliminary. and at this point, take some questions. we ll take a few questions. hold on. josh? you said the privately owned, do you know what function [ inaudible ]? yeah, tentatively, we have it as executive travel, all right? do you know where it was headed? no, we don t. we think it was going back to its home airport in lyndon, new jersey. but we re not sure. it s preliminary. commissioner, why was that helicopter in the air in weather like this? not sure. that s part of the investigation. was this was the pilot the owner/operator of the pilot? doesn t appear to be the owner. we have him preliminarily identified, but it s not confirmed yet and we are looking out for his family, too. were there any distress calls or anything before that s part of the investigation to see if there was any contact made with air traffic control. hold on, hold on. aside from the weather, aside from the weather, was there other re
manhattan crashing into the roof. new images of the crash scene. the new york city fire department put out the fire within minutes and stopped the fuel from leaking. the nypd said the private hoorpt took off from the 34 hth street heliport on the east river headed to its its home airport in linden, new jersey. all aircraft flying in the area must be cleared by the la guardia airport control tower. we do not know if this helicopter received prior clearance. we do not know the cause of this crash but there was heavy rain at the time. new york governor andrew cuomo said that when first reports came of an aircraft hitting a building every new yorker experienced some level of ptds remembering 9/11. bret: several top democrats say president trump created a crisis and is now taking credit for solving it. the president insists his agreement with mexico to curb
[question inaudible] tentatively we have it as executive travel. do you know where it was headed? no. we think it was going back to its home airport in lyndon, n l new jersey. why was that helicopter in this weather? we re not sure. part of the investigation. was the pilot the owner operator? no. we have him identified but it s not confirmed. we re looking out for his family, too. were there any distress calls? that s why the investigation, to see if there was contact made with air traffic control. [question inaudible] there s a tfr there, temporary flight restriction. to be clear, to go into that area, a helicopter would need the approval of laguardia tower.
laguardia s airspace. so the mayor is making a point to be where that helicopter was that should be under the control of ftc, and they ve put out word they were not in control of this helicopter. so something was amiss there. did he fly north and run into difficulties trying to get to the west side of manhattan where there s a corridor. and then because he can go up and around it. he can go up and around, so is that what was happening and then ran into difficulties, that s why he needed to land there. i think that s the question everyone was trying to figure out. if he was flying to new jersey and received clearance to fly near the statue of liberty, that would be on his flight path on the way home. so that makes sense why people are saying his next point was to fly by the statue of liberty as we were explaining. he was on his way to linden, the home airport. to our team reporting this,
owned helicopter, do you know what function it served? tentatively we have it as executive travel. do you know where it was headed? we don t. we think it was going back to its home airport in new jersey. why was that helicopter in the air in weather like this? not sure. that s part of the investigation. is this the pilot the owner/operator of the helicopter. doesn t appear to be the owner. we have him preliminarily identified but we re looking out for his family, too. it s part of the investigation to see if there was any contact made with air traffic control. aside from the weather was there other reasons why they shouldn t have been flying in this area, we re close to trump tower. there was a temporary flight restriction there and we re checking into that, too. to be clear, to go into that area, a helicopter would need