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Sources said the inquiry ruled out any possibility of technical errors or mechanical defects

Tonight was a nerve-wracking day here in the nations largest city where towards the end of the lunch hour people were alerted first pie sirens and then by their phones and then word of mouth that an aircraft of some sort had hit a high rise building. and for a while thats all we knew. turned out to be a helicopter that crash landedoon the roof of a midtown manhattan building. it turned out to have killed the pilot. thankfully all others were injured. at the time of the crash there was heavy rain...

Here in the nations largest city where towards the end of the lunch hour people were alerted first pie sirens and then by their phones and then word of mouth that an aircraft of some sort had hit a high rise building. and for a while thats all we knew. turned out to be a helicopter that crash landedoon the roof of a midtown manhattan building. it turned out to have killed the pilot. thankfully all others were injured. at the time of the crash there was heavy rain and you could only see up or dow...

The lunch hour people were alerted first by sirens and then by their phones and then word of mouth that an aircraft of some sort had hit a high rise building. and for a while thats all we knew. turned out to be a helicopter that crash landed on the roof of a midtown manhattan building. it turned out to have killed the pilot. thankfully no others were injured. at the time of the crash there was heavy rain and you could only see up or down a few hundred feet. so that was the initially shock that s...

This accident. >> joining me now cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo. mary, you heard the official saying theyll look into weather, the jet companys ceo said he would be surprised to hear this would be because of pilot error. no distress calls. pilots were well seasoned. what kinds of questions would you be asking? >> statistically, if you look at the cause of accidents in this situation, your thoughts first go to something call control flight into terrain, often described to loss of pilot situati...