The military transport plane which took long, slow circles around Manhattan at low altitude on Dec. 13 was on a Trump security recon mission, sources said Wednesday.

The low-flying C-130 cargo plane scared New Yorkers and even took city officials by surprise. “The Secret Service was working on something involving Trump security,” a source said. “It was basically practice they were doing as a result of his election.” In addition to the C-130, two HH-60 Pave Hawk search and rescue helicopters were also involved.“The guy is the President of the United States,” a source said of the exercise. “If they didn’t do it that would be negligent.”

In addition to a survey, the mission was part of the contingency planning in the event that Trump had to be rapidly relocated, a second source said. City officials were not informed of the airborne survey until after it had already started, sources said.(nydailynews)…[+]