BREAKING: Helicopter Crashes Into NYC High-Rise

BREAKING NOW:

A helicopter has crashed into a high-rise building in midtown Manhattan, according to several media outlets.

The crash occurred atop the AXA Building at 787 7th Avenue, according to the New York City Fire Department.

The helicopter crashed on the roof of the building, a senior law enforcement official told The Daily Beast.
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a reply to: IAMTAT

Reported heavy landing.

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I truly hope it was simply an accident and no one else is hurt. I find it odd that it happened 2 blacks from another very famous hi rise.

a reply to: IAMTAT

I hope the crew/passengers are okay. 👌

One fatality was reported.

There was a fire...but it appears to have been put out by FDNY.

a reply to: IAMTAT

Being reported as a hard landing with one injury.
So far no fatalities.

Helicopter traffic has been banned from landing on rooftops in the city since the seventies.
This guy was probably flying over the river and got into some kind of trouble.

Sorry, I see one fatality now being reported.

Once upon a time helicopter traffic was common over Manhattan.
when I was a kid I took a commercial flight from Kennedy airport to the Pan Am building in Manhattan and back to the airport again.

They are saying this is going to be investigated because the bird did not belong in that area and the proximity to trump tower.
NTSB is not on the scene yet.

originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: IAMTAT

Being reported as a hard landing with one injury.
So far no fatalities.

Helicopter traffic has been banned from landing on rooftops in the city since the seventies.
This guy was probably flying over the river and got into some kind of trouble.

If it wasn't for that ban then a lot of people could have been saved from the WTC in 2011.

Hearing one fatality now.

a reply to: Sillyolme

Hold on. You mislead us.

The Chopper ban is only on weekends.

Why do you do it Silly?

a reply to: Wide-Eyes
Only commercial flights have been banned.
Emergency copters and police copters are still allowed.

a reply to: Wide-Eyes

As far as I know its banned entirely.

a reply to: IAMTAT

yes me too.
Hopefully we will find out what happened.
Thankfully he did not wind up on the street.

a reply to: Wide-Eyes

No they couldn't have. A few maybe, but the heat and smoke would have made getting a helicopter on the roof incredibly dangerous if not impossible. Not to mention, IIRC the roof doors were kept locked.

If it had been possible they would have ignored the ban and done it.

a reply to: Sillyolme

My bad.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Wide-Eyes

No they couldn't have. A few maybe, but the heat and smoke would have made getting a helicopter on the roof incredibly dangerous if not impossible. Not to mention, IIRC the roof doors were kept locked.

If it had been possible they would have ignored the ban and done it.

Fair point. What ifs are always haunting.

Reported that the pilot was killed.

originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: IAMTAT


Thankfully he did not wind up on the street.

Amen to that.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Emergency helicopters were never banned. Only commercial flights.
There used to be quite a trade taking the mad men from the airport into the city in fifteen minutes.
It can take an hour by car during certain hours of the day.