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752 feet above the ground. it means the top of the building might have been obscured. >> yeah, i think thats absolutely right. and for geography purposes lets remind the audience as well the midtown heliport is not that far away. and we dont know the answer to this -- was this chopper trying to get to or was it coming from the midtown heliport on the east river and did that play a role? given the low ceiling and the fact the helicopter was not supposed to be -- unless it had permission -- not su...

Nightmare. >> the second is probably the glass and the streets around it, threat from a vehicle-born explosive device. >> also the threat from the air. the faa has established a temporary no-fly zone four times the height of trump tower and expanding two nautical miles along one of the busiest flight corridors on the east coast. the outside of the building is tightly guarded to prevent what happened this summer when a climber using giant suction cups scaled the all-glass exterior. everything ins...

Drew attention. trump tower for secret service is a logistical and tactical nightmare. among the top three concerns. >> checklist is probably the height. the glass and then the streets around it. the threat from the vehicle-born explosive device. >> reporter: also the threat from the air. the faa has established a temporary no fly zone, four times the height of trump tower and expanding two nautical miles along one of the busiest flight corridors on the east coast. and the outside is now guarded...

About it, we immediately contacted our flight operations guys and said, please take a closer look at these flight corridors. >> reporter: congressman duncan hunter wants the faa to be more aggressive in protecting u.s. airliners. >> the faa, if there was intelligence from our intel community or our military community that the sa-11 was in the hands of some bad guys, the faa should have been notified of this. >> reporter: but the u.s. transportation secretary defends the faas decision to allow fl...

And because its considered a safe corridor, our flight planning systems will look at those opportunities and select a flight path to follow. in view of mh-17, weve taken a second look at that and one of our processes now is to go back and say, regardless of what the civil aviation organization says is a safe corridor, we need to put in another layer of protection to say what else is going on in the region and could there be a potential for another situation like flight mh-17 and in which case we...

Safe flight corridor. again, when i found out about it, we immediately contacted our flight operation guys and said please take a look at these flight corridors. mh-17 should be a warning to everyone and id rather err on the side of caution. >> we are joined by chad myers. >> they can fly a flight plan, as long as its approved, they can go through anything they want to over ukraine. im going to take you a journey. from kuala lumpur from here going this direction, the opposite direction that mh-1...

There on that island reported seeing a low flying jumbo jet. that is true it placed the jet outside the two flight corridors. other flight 370 theorists believe the plane planneded on 634 run wrways inside the searc area and others have returned to the original hypothesis. maybe it really was mechanical error after all. offering a startling simple theory pilot chris goodfellow says possibly a electrical fire and prompted the pilots to put the course on that runway. and says the runway would was ...

Jetliner not only may have been in the air longer than anyone thought, now officials say it may have been diverted intentionally, using existing flight corridors to the middle east and europe. one investigator saying hijacking and sabotage is still in the cards to chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. >> first, flight 370 continued to send periodic pushes of data after the transponder went -- and these pings posted a number of times in attempt of link up with satellites. and a sho...