Helicopter crashes into roof of Midtown NYC building

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Daily News

A helicopter crashed into the roof of a Midtown building Monday.

The aircraft crash landed on the roof of the building on 51st St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves. about 1:50 p.m.

A fire broke out immediately after the crash on the roof, which was not equipped with a helicopter landing pad, law enforcement sources said.

There was one person injured in the crash, sources said.

Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-helicopter-crash-midtown-20190610-yrgqgkqmvveibjhzqsqz3unezm-story.html

[George II]

1. That's right at Rockefeller Center, not sure which particular building that is.

[brooklynite]

2. 787 7th Avenue @50th St

[PJMcK]

3. I know that building well

My old office was across the street and a lawyer for a client of mine had his offices there. Never liked that guy!

There's a really great, high-end restaurant in that building called Le Bernardin, I think.

[IcyPeas]

4. pilot died according to KTLA news. /nt

[MineralMan]

5. The AXA Equitable Building

I looked at the roof on Google Maps. There is no helipad, so the hard landing almost certainly caused some damage up there.

Banks and other businesses are the tenants, mainly. Nice building, actually.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. Wall-to-wall breathless coverage on MSNBC

while regular NY'ers are going about their regular business and lives. There's no new news and it's just a shot of fire and police while they are pre-empting a pretty good Judiciary Committee hearing (now on CSPAN 3).

[brooklynite]

7. "Regular NY'ers are going about their regular business" are skipping the Hearing as well...

[DeminPennswoods]

8. They aren't the ones who need to learn what's in

the SCO report. They already know all about Trump.

[brooklynite]

9. Who "needs to know" and was planning to actually watch?

[DeminPennswoods]

17. At least part of it would likely have been carried

live by Fox News. Those are the people who would've been watching and, hopefully, learned something. This is what the breathless helicopter emergency landing and crash coverage denied cable news viewers.

[brooklynite]

10. Police investigating a possible fuel leak risk...

Midtown closed to traffic between 42nd-57th Streets, 6th-8th Avenues.

[Maxheader]

11. Oh really!? A fuel leak?

No ones started emergency fuel containment?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Well, duh, they probably almost certainly highly likely you can bet on it they've started.

Do you have some inside information that they did NOT start fuel containment? C'mon, 'fess up.

[Maxheader]

18. Just figured that...

A helicopter crash landing on the top of a skyscraper...was not in the emergency preparedness manual...

Like, duh.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Like, duh, New York City has been hit by aircraft for decades.

Perhaps you forgot about September 11, 2001? NYC hasn't.

Or the crash in 1945? At the Empire State Building.

Or the helicopter crash that killed 5 people.

Yeah, New York City has thought about it and prepared.

[Maxheader]

20. Doesn't sound like it to me...

Sounds like they've got their heads up their ass...

As usual...Big duh!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. So. You have no facts. Period. . . . nt

[Maxheader]

23. About as many as..

you had when you started this childish rant...You any proof the "great newyowk" action readiness team was anything but delinquent in their efforts?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. I provided historical facts in this sub-thread. You? Nothing but a baseless slander at NYPD & NYC.nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Not to forget your slander against the NYFD who would surely be doing the containment. . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. It was your slanderous assertion, so ball was in your court.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

You were called on your extraordinary claim and supplied ... no evidence.

[Maxheader]

27. Try free republic...

Their ability to understand a slam and yours are identical.

[MicaelS]

12. How many large buildings in NYC have helipads? n/t

[brooklynite]

13. None

Helicopter landings were banned decades ago after part of a helicopter fell off the Pan Am building

5 Killed in Helicopter Accident on Top of Pan Am Building

On May 16, 1977, a rotor blade broke off a helicopter on the roof of Manhattan’s Pan Am Building after the copter’s landing gear failed, causing it to turn sideways. The blade killed five people.

The New York Times reported: “Whirling like a giant boomerang, the blade struck four people on the roof-top madding pad, killing three instantly, then plunged over the skyscraper’s west parapet. About halfway down the gray tower, the blade crashed into a window and broke in two. One piece of the blade continued to fall, whirling onto Madison Avenue and killing a woman.”

The roof of the Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building), an 808-foot-tall building situated between Grand Central Terminal and the New York Central Building (Helmsley Building), was used as a helipad from 1965 to 1968, transporting passengers from Midtown to the Pan Am terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport. The helipad was reopened in February 1977, just three months before the accident.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the accident was caused by “metal fatigue,” which caused the landing gear to fail. The Pan Am helipad was shut down following the accident and has not reopened.

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/may-16-1977-helicopter-accident-on-top-of-pan-am-building-kills-five/

[MicaelS]

14. Thanks so much.

I remember the crash now that you posted about it.

[3Hotdogs]

16. Didn't Superman save Lois's ass off of one of those building?

I think the Deep State tried to hide it but pictures - or was it videos, leaked out. They were posted by Anonymous.

You don't, nobody fuck with Anonymous.

[Crabby Appleton]

22. This article says he wasn't licensed

To fly in weather that bad, not instrument rated.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/helicopter-pilot-who-crashed-nyc-skyscraper-shouldn-t-have-been-n1016041

[Major Nikon]

29. That alone demonstrates very bad decision making

[customerserviceguy]

28. I'm curious

has the name of the pilot been released? Do we know why this pilot was even in the air? Was it a rescue mission, or just a trip to pick up some rich-ass person who figured their time was more valuable than than the lives of who might possibly be endangered because someone HAD to take a helicopter ride?