accounts in cyprus. or, indeed, they now felt that people had to pay their part of the pain. but, it was not done in ireland. it was not done in portugal. it was not done in greece. with the prospect and possibility of spain and italy, you can see. i cannot find, michael and suzanne, i cannot find one economist or banker that i ve spoken to today that says this was a good idea. everybody agrees it was a pretty awful policy. that financial panic has prompted the government in cyprus to order all banks closed until at least thursday. two escaped prisoners are back in custody, along with two men who helped with their very bold breakout. they posed as tourists and chartered a sightseeing helicopter, but they forced a pilot at gunpoint to fly over a jail near montreal and lowered ropes to two waiting prisoners and whisked them away.
of the water onto the tarmac where we started work on him. reporter: all those onboard the helicopter were friends of the pilot. they were doing sight-seeing in new york. this was not an official sightseeing helicopter. those have to have location devices for passengers. it s not clear if those vests were onboard this helicopter. bill: what is remarkable is they pulled the helicopter out of the water. reporter: the helicopter was pulled out of the water. it s still not clear what the cause was of this crash. we are told the pilot was very experienced. in 2006 he had to make an emergency lands can of a single engine aircraft. he said panic doesn t get you anywhere. he called his attorney after the crash and he told his lawyer apparently there was a mechanical failure. mayor michael bloomberg said he has no idea whether this was
stations, plus our own crews are on the way. you may know there are helicopter tours that take side of manhattan, the hudson river. the east river, there s less of that. there s a heli port on the lower east side of manhattan, way down by the peers down there. we don t know if this is a sightseeing helicopter, a military helicopter, what it is. the only report from the new river. the chopper is in the water. this is from the new york city fire department in new york. the fire press tells us they just arrived on the scene. it s 34th street and the east river. so i don t know, slightly lower than midtown for those of you that don t live here. that area. no further details, but hearing possibly three people in the helicopter as it went down in the east river moments ago. we can anticipate moments from now, one of our news helicopters, will be up in the
top stories. a personal phone conversation by an air traffic controller likely kringted to the cause of a deadly collision over the hudson river last year. that finding by the ntsb. nine people killed in the collision between a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter. joshgs outgoing bp chief executive tony hayward gets grilled in london. members of parliament questioned hayward about his company the response to the oil disaster in the gulf of mexico. safety issues, a key part of today s hearing. taking all issues very seriously. i do not believe the issues reported this morning point to any fundamental weakness in our north sea operations. we have a very strong track record in the north sea. it is better than the industry average. we have seen major improvements in the course of the last two
because all of the traffic is eye depth fied by transponder and the f.a.a. or the towers will help you see it and avoid it. is it possible, jon, that neither one of them would have had to be in control with a tower? that s what i m guessing is that this mane and the helicopter were probably flying at the lower level. you stay generally below a thousand feet, were probably flying at the lower level, and the old adage in aviation is you will never see the air cast that hit you, and that may be what happened here. there are sidelines and so forth that make it hard to see another aircraft, and you know, at the speeds that these might have closed at, it can be very problematic. what is the hudson in terms of conditions right now to find