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Some terror for manhattanites experiencing this helicopter crashing on their roof. miguel, you're on the scene. you've been talking to people who were witnesses, talking to people in the building. what are you hearing? >> reporter: when a building shakes and reports of a plane into a building, which were the initial reports, it's fear and adrenaline across all of new york. and that was the case. i spoke to people on the 29th floor, the 14th floor, and the 7th floor. all three felt the impact of that helicopter on to this building. and the one on the 29th floor said it shook fairly violently. i...

No motive for this being on purpose, as of now, no nexus to terror is known, as of now. a lot of mysteries ensuing as to how and why this happened. mary schiavo joins me now. and mary, how do authorities begin to investigate this kind of crash? what are they looking at right now? >> well, right now they're looking at things that happened on the ground before this pilot ever took off. the ntsb obviously will let the fire department get the fire under control, get everything under control, but the wreckage of the aircraft may actually determine very little. if there was mechanical problems or if...

But, again, it's a relatively small helicopter. you know, as far as we know, there was just the one person onboard. and the visibility is really bad today. not only is it raining, it's kind of miserable here on the street. when you go up high, if you're in the top floor of that office building, you know, you can't see out, because there's clouds all around. so, any pilot who, for whatever reason, is flying here. and again, we don't know why they would be doing that, this would be a very difficult area to fly in right now. >> that's right. and you're at the intersection of 51st street and 7th a...

Moments. the rain -- once the helicopter hit that building, there was a fire that broke out. we saw several firefighters come down in the last hour or so with their faces covered in soot. so that part seems to be mostly done. the fire department got on it very, very quickly and were able to deal with it. the witnesses saying that they were told initially to wait at their desks and after about ten minutes, the alarms went off and the loudspeakers came on and said to evacuate the building. there was a rush down the stairs. it was crowded, but they were all able to get out. the people i spoke to ...

After that. and in fact, a helicopter should not fin this area of manhattan without the approve of laguardia airport tower. is that because of trump tower or times square -- >> certainly because of trump tower in particular. but something like this should have been authorized. we don't have any indication it was, but we're still investigating to confirm that. >> obviously, the conditions, there's a lot of fog up there, it's tough, low visibility. could that have played a role? >> it could have. i have to tell you, our fire department had to get up there over 50 stories, put out a fire on top o...