Alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione was flown again to town from Pennsylvania within the division’s federally-funded spy aircraft.
The $4 million aircraft, particularly designed to hunt for radiological weapons, or “dirty bombs,” left Lengthy Island MacArthur Airport at 8:51 a.m. on Dec. 19 and arrived in Blair County, Pa., at 10:24 a.m., information from FlightAware present.
The souped-up Cessna took off once more with the Ivy Leaguer inside round 10:49 a.m. and landed on the Central Islip airport at 12:08 p.m., information present.
Mangione was then taken by helicopter to Manhattan.
Mangione, clad in an orange jumpsuit, was then led to the courthouse surrounded by metropolis and federal brokers with lengthy weapons — and even Mayor Adams — in a scene out of a Hollywood film.
The NYPD stated it decided the aircraft was the easiest way to get Mangione to NYC.
“After considering distance, weather, and the totality of the circumstances, it was determined that flying was the most efficient and safest method to transport the prisoner,” an NYPD spokesperson stated.
The NYPD obtained the modified Cessna C208B Grand Caravan via a Preparedness Grant from the Federal Emergency Administration Company in 2017.
The next 12 months, 5 NYPD pilots had been disciplined after utilizing the aircraft to fly a route formed like a large penis as a result of they had been offended at their boss, The Put up reported.
Different cops found the lewd sample on the division’s flight-tracking software program, sources stated.
Additionally in 2018, extra controversy was sparked when the aircraft was used to shuttle then-Mayor Invoice de Blasio forwards and backwards between town and his Canadian trip for the renaming of a Bronx road in honor of slain NYPD Detective Miosotis Familia.
Then- Police Commissioner James O’Neill admitted in that he had additionally used the aircraft “three or four times” that 12 months as a result of he was busy.
The highest cop additionally stated he was by no means on the Cessna for counterterrorism functions.
One former police official questioned why authorities wanted to make use of the dear aircraft.
“It’s a show,” former NYPD Particular Victims Division Chief Michael Osgood stated, noting the journey would have taken about 4 hours in a automotive.
“Luigi is a punk,” stated Osgood, who filed a lawsuit towards the division and former commissioners after he was allegedly pushed out for serving to investigators trying into his unit in 2018. “You put him in the back of a car and drive him back.”
