announce their participation. one of them former vice president mike pence submitted his government forms today. correspondent mark meredith is on the story tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening, like you said, it s getting bigger by the day. the three men jumping into the race this week are all former prominent trump supporters. clear candidates feel more comfortable taking on the frontrunner. the question remains will republicans want an alternative next year. hello, iowa. former vice president mike pence is challenging donald trump for the demonstration. today pence filed his paperwork with the fec and will formally roll out his campaign in iowa on wednesday. republican primary voters are going to look at the field, think very deeply about who can best carry our message and carry majorities to victory. pence will face considerable competition including from south carolina senator tim scott who tonight is generating considerable buzz after appearing on
pilot incapacitated in the cockpit. flares were fired to get the pilot s attention. norad said it did not bring down the plane, which appears to have run out of fuel. on board the flight, adena azaraian, age 489 with her 2-year-old daughter and thane. she was the daughter of john and barbara rumpel who served on the executive committee of the nra women s leadership forum in florida. and wrote the following message on facebook quote my family is gone. my daughter and granddaughter. the ntsb is investigating the cause of the crash. a preliminary report is expected within 10 days. bret? bret: jennifer griffin at the pentagon. thank you. a government investigator into unidentified aerial phenomena better known as ufos has says the u.s. is in possession of intact and partially intact alien spacecraft. dr. charles go robber tells the website debrief he has turned over the conversation to
instrument flight plan. it is illegal to be in the clouds and you can t cross the island of manhattan without checking in with laguardia to r tower. there are certain they will give you permission on occasion, if traffic permits. generally they send you over central park. so, this video that we see is certainly illegal behavior on the part of either another helicopter pilot most likely this is the helicopter that was involved in the crash. we do know this. it was owned by a company, real estate holding firm that has offices on park avenue, and it is based the helicopter is based in lyndon, new jersey, near newark. unclear what the route of flight was. was this pilot incapacitated? did he have a problem with the controls of the craft? was this something was there some other mental aspect to this, that made him distracted? unclear. peter gold i spoke with the mayor of new york city the last
there it is, okay. so the first few seconds are crucial, erin, because you see the helicopter coming out of the clouds almost straight down towards the ground. what that would tell you is the pilot might have accidently flown into instrument meet logical conditions inside the clouds, became disoriented, pointed the nose downward to try to break out, and what appears to happen then is he levels off, gains control of the craft. you know, potentially near miss crisis averted. but then what doesn t make sense is you see it slowly rise back into the clouds and then over manhattan. so you have to ask yourself was there a control issue with the aircraft, that would be a key focus for investigators. and the other possibility here is was this pilot incapacitated in some way? was he having a coronary, for example, that made it difficult for him to gain control? so these are the things. uric looing at the pilot, machine and the environment.