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Helicopter crashes on roof of NYC skyscraper, killing pilot

By JIM MUSTIAN and JENNI- son aboard, and there
FER PELTZ were no other reports of in-
Associated Press juries, authorities said.
NEW YORK (AP) — A he- It was not immediately
licopter crashed on the clear what caused the
roof of a rain-shrouded crash, or why the Agusta
midtown Manhattan sky- A109E was flying in a driv-
scraper Monday, killing the ing downpour with low
pilot and briefly triggering cloud cover and in the
memories of 9/11, after an tightly controlled airspace
erratic trip across some of of midtown Manhattan.
the nation’s most restricted A flight restriction in effect
airspace. Authorities said since President Donald
they did not suspect terror- Trump took office bans
ism. aircraft from flying below
The crash near Times Square 3,000 feet (914 meters)
and Trump Tower shook the within a 1-mile (1.6 km) ra-
750-foot (229-meter) AXA dius of Trump Tower, which
Equitable building, sparked is less than a half-mile (0.8
a fire, and forced office kilometers) from the crash
workers to flee on elevators site.
and down stairs, witnesses Mist and smoke cover the top of a building near 51st Street and 7th Avenue Monday, June 10,
and officials said. 2019, in New York, where a helicopter was reported to have crash landed on top of the roof of a
The pilot was the only per- Continued on Page 3 building in midtown Manhattan.
Associated Press