U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) just blasted the helicopter tour company that was behind a 2018 crash in New York City. 

This, according to the New York Post, is because the company is trying to offer a 70% discount to customers following last week's deadly Hudson River crash.

Just to be clear, the company offering the discount is not the company that was involved in the Hudson River crash. It is a different company called FlyNYON. The company involved in the Hudson River crash is called New York Helicopter.

FlyNYON, however, was involved in a 2018 crash in New York City.

Schumer weighs in

Schumer held a press conference on Sunday in New York City, in which he referred to FlyNYON's discount as "outrageous."

"Listen to this. [FlyNYON] is offering the same kind of flights that just took the lives of these six people, but now, because of the crash, they’re giving a 70% discount special, outrageous, outrageous," the Senate minority leader said.

The Post provides further details about the discount.

It reports:

In the days since the crash, FlyNYON has continued advertising its tours with posts on social media showing passengers dangling their legs out of open chopper doors on controversial flights the company was previously exposed for exploiting regulatory loopholes to operate.

In one post, the company wrote, "Looking for something to check off the bucket list? A doors off helicopter flight over NYC."

Background

This appeal comes following the Hudson River crash that claimed the lives of multiple individuals. Schumer, at the press conference, also spoke about this.

ABC News reports:

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling on federal authorities to revoke the operating permits of the helicopter tour company whose sightseeing chopper broke apart in midair and plunged into the Hudson River Thursday, killing a family of five visiting from Spain and the pilot, a Navy SEAL veteran.

Schumer, in part, said, "One of the things we can do to honor those lives and try to save others is to make sure it doesn’t happen again. We know there is one thing for sure about New York City’s helicopter tour companies: they have a deadly track record."

ABC reports, "In the last two decades, five helicopters on commercial sightseeing flights have fallen into the Hudson and East rivers as a result of mechanical failures, pilot errors or collisions, killing 20 people."

It is certainly does not sound as though it is the safest activity.