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752 feet above the ground. it means the top of the building might have been obscured. >> yeah, i think that's absolutely right. and for geography purposes let's remind the audience as well the midtown heliport is not that far away. and we don't 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 supposed to be over midtown, was there some disorientation involved there, did the pilot lose track...

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 inside trump tower will have to be secured from the air vents to elevators, even florid floors surround...

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. and everything inside trump tower will have to be secured from the air vents to the elevators. eve...

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 faa's decision to allow flights in eastern ukraine prior to the shootdown. rene marsh, cnn, washington. out front tonight m...

And because it's 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, we've 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 will close down those corridors so they will not be candidates for us to use in the future. the c...