The women will have quite a New York story to tells when they go home. 'They were happy when we got on the ground, everybody was happy, and then it turned into, OK everybody is safe,' McCormick said.Īmazingly, the woman in the front passenger seat was not injured when the window shattered on her. He had no choice, he had to stay calm and find in emergency place to land. The pilot tells Eyewitness News the women started screaming and crying. They had viewed downtown, Coney Island, and we're heading back from Yankee Stadium when the bird hit. The Huey nickname stuck thanks to her early HU-1 designation (it was later redesignated to UH-1 with the normalization of 1962). McCormick was flying a bell 407 seven-passenger helicopter Friday afternoon. From 1965 to 1973, the Bell UH-1, officially named Iroquois was the most common utility helicopter used in Vietnam. He wanted to get a radio station, and what I remember is. I cannot hear you, but we are heading for a spot to land,' McCormick said to Air Traffic Control. Lady Bird, however, directly approached Durr about the station, and Lyndon phoned James Barr of the FCC’s Standard Broadcast Division. 36) Lyndon Baines Johnson o VP under JFK o Codename Volunteer o Scandals (Sample, p. If you can hear me we are declaring emergency. Lady Bird was a major stockholder in Bell Helicopter (Roberts, p. By 1975, its sales were evenly divided among three sectors: commercial (both domestic and international), U.S. government for 85 percent of its sales in the ‘60s, developed a broader customer base and enjoyed a surge in profits as a result. By 1975, its sales were evenly divided among three sectors: commercial (both domestic and international), U.S. Bell Helicopter, which relied on the U.S. 'To LGA Tower 9TD just hit a bird strike we're going to be heading for 3-0. Bell Helicopter, which relied on the U.S.

Despite missing his front window, despite not being able to hear anything, he calmly and safely landed his bird at the 30th St. Over the next four days, the nineteen-car train carried First Lady Claudia Lady Bird Johnson on a whistle-stop tour of the South, covering 1,682 miles from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans. He says he never lost control of his craft. Just before dawn on Tuesday, October 6, 1964, the Lady Bird Special pulled away from Track 12 at Union Station.

Pilot of Bell helicopter in Lyndon Johnsons 1948. Pilot Tim McCormick put all his training and 20 years of experience to work. 1961-1963 Press Secretary and Staff director to First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. 'It was pretty much like an explosion going off in your cockpit, a little bit of a pandemonium kind of thing, you know, you have to gather yourself and we headed over to 30th Street,' said Tim McCormack, the helicopter pilot. In one flash, a picture perfect day for a helicopter ride over Manhattan turned into a terrifying ordeal when a bird strike the passenger front window of this chopper. The Bell B407 helicopter, owned by Helicopter Flight Services, landed without incident at around 2:45 p.m. NEW YORK (WABC) - A tour helicopter made an emergency landing at the West 30th Street Heliport after a bird apparently struck the windshield.

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