Tricia
Will you provide us “we the tax payers” with answers (when the question is asked) as to why the flight wasn’t registered with FAA?
FG
When you fly VFR (visual flight rules) you can take a plane up without reporting it. If you want the FAA to track you then you file a flight plan. When you fly IFR (instrument flight rules) you have to file a flight plan(FAA tracks you) and you have to speak to ATC
FG
Or If you want to fly into Certain airspace like JFK /LGA or fly above 18,000 feet in height you have to talk with ATC/ file a flight plan.
Nicki 🇺🇸 ❤️ ✝️
As you know, we can no longer rely on the MSM to give us factual news.I always find it best to go straight to the source to get the correct info. I sure hope this was simply accident but it’s real interesting that the legal offices for the CF is in the very same building
StevenSimm64
Privately owned executive helicopter who didn't bother getting FAA approval. Big surprise. Ok, fess up. Which Wall Street ahole demanded that the pilot fly?
Same pilot from this 2014 story?? https://t.co/JmCapddmxZ— Mish CS (@Michell61054211) June 10, 2019
Same pilot from this 2014 story?? https://t.co/JmCapddmxZ— Mish CS (@Michell61054211) June 10, 2019
Saturday, October 4, 2014 NEW YORK (WABC) -- A tour helicopter made an emergency landing at the West 30th Street Heliport after a bird apparently struck the windshield. The Bell B407 helicopter, owned by Helicopter Flight Services, landed without incident at around 2:45 p.m. on Friday.
In one flash, a picture perfect day for a helicopter ride over Manhattan turned into a terrifying ordeal when a bird strike the passenger front window of this chopper. The window shattered on impact.
"It was pretty much like an explosion going off in your cockpit, a little bit of a pandemonium kind of thing, you know, you have to gather yourself and we headed over to 30th Street," said Tim McCormack, the helicopter pilot.
Pilot Tim McCormick put all his training and 20 years of experience to work. He says he never lost control of his craft. Despite missing his front window, despite not being able to hear anything, he calmly and safely landed his bird at the 30th St. heliport.
"To LGA Tower 9TD just hit a bird strike; we're going to be heading for 3-0. If you can hear me we are declaring emergency. I cannot hear you, but we are heading for a spot to land," McCormick said to Air Traffic Control.
McCormick was flying a bell 407 seven-passenger helicopter Friday afternoon. He had six female tourists on board. They had viewed downtown, Coney Island, and we're heading back from Yankee Stadium when the bird hit. It was perhaps a seagull. The pilot tells Eyewitness News the women started screaming and crying. He had no choice, he had to stay calm and find in emergency place to land.
"They were happy when we got on the ground, everybody was happy, and then it turned into, OK everybody is safe," McCormick said.
Amazingly, the woman in the front passenger seat was not injured when the window shattered on her.
She suffered just a minor scratch. Most importantly all are safe. The women will have quite a New York story to tells when they go home.