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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Tuesday, June 11th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning.

In the news this morning, the pilot of an eight-seat twin-engine helicopter was killed

when the chopper crashed on the roof of a eight-seat twin-engine helicopter was killed when the

chopper crashed on the roof of a Manhattan building and burst into flames, sending smoke

billowing across the dreary rain-filled sky Monday afternoon authorities said.

The pilot appeared to attempt an emergency landing about 11 minutes after taking off on the roof

of a 51-story building at 787 7th Avenue just before 2 o'clock. The crash resulted in a fire which was extinguished by 220. The pilot was identified as Tim McCormick of Clinton Corner's New York. He was believed to be the only one on board and there were no other injuries. The craft took off from the 34th Street heliport. At the time of the crash, visibility was just over a mile and there was rain and fog in and around the Manhattan area, according to the National Weather Service.

McCormack was an experienced pilot and well respected in the community. They say that he was, there was some, he was flying low underneath some clouds and that he was in a restricted airspace, but who knows that he was trying to make this

emergency landing, the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash.

Years ago, when the Pan Am building was active, they had a famous heliport on the top of

this kind of a standard thing where people go up and take a helicopter flight out to the

airports.

Yeah.

And then a plane, a helicopter crash, I don't know if you remember, and debris was scattered for blocks, like parts of the blade and stuff like that. And they said, okay, no more. No kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they don't have those teleports and not on, maybe some buildings? Maybe. Okay. But that was a prominent one where they would have these large passenger helicopters that would see like 12 people or whatever, you know, whatever the largest passenger helicopter amount is.

That's right. these large passenger helicopters that would see like 12 people or whatever, you know, whatever the largest passenger helicopter amount is.

They're like pretty scary sometimes.

There was one right over here in Channel 10's parking lot for years.

And I remember watching it land and, you know, like parking in that parking lot sometimes, you're, you're right there.

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