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Was a very experienced pilot. he was a pilot for about 20 years experience is what we're learning. he had his commercial pilot's license back in 2004. he actually was involved in an incident back in 2014 where he was taking up six tourists and hit a bird in a helicopter, broke the window, and was able to safely land that helicopter, so that certainly speaks to how skilled he was as a pilot. we're also learning that for the last five years, he was flying these executive helicopters for a company called american continental properties group, which is a real estate company. but there was more to ...

The east side of manhattan, we're told from a source that he said he thought he had a window in all of that weather, about five to seven-minute window to take off. once he got actually in the air and started making his way around the lower part of manhattan and up the west side, there was some communication back to the heliport at some point that he needed to come back. and we're being told then the last communication this pilot had with the heliport was that he was unsure of his location or he had some visibility issues, but that seems to be the last communication, at least from the people th...

Tim will be exceptionally missed by his department members. not only for his leadership but his wonderful sense of humor. rest in peace, brother. >> yeah, a lot of people hurting with this news of this tragic death. hopefully we'll get more answers from the ntsb. we're hoping to hear from them some time today. >> that's so sad hearing from his colleague. thank you so much. really appreciate it. >> so while that crash is obviously still under investigation, it is renewing the crash yesterday is renewing questions and concerns about the safety of helicopter flights over a city like new york. yes...

Building, going through that debris field. and we're told that there is no black box, per se, for this helicopter. however, they're hoping to glean some sort of information from the flight instruments. we are learning more, though, about the timeline about those moments before this crash happened. we learned from investigators that that pilot, tim mccormack, took off from a westchester airport, bringing that helicopter to here on the east side of new york city. and he waited on the ground, actually dropped off a passenger and waited on the ground for nearly two hours before he took off again. ...

Weather to improve before he took off. and we've tlaernd frlearned fro that there was some communication between the helicopter and that pilot after he took off. in one communication whereby he thought he had to come back, according to a source. in that second communication, he actually said he was losing visibility, he didn't know where he was. and that according to a source is the last time that anyone heard from this pilot. so unclear, again, how that pilot ended up where he did here on the top of a 54-story building in midtown, but investigators say they're talking to people, that passenge...