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All too well. as soon as you hear an air crash in a building, i think my mind goes for every new yorkers mind goes. >> at this point there is no indication? >> at this point there is no indication that that is the case, the only indication was a helicopter had to do an emergency or hard landing or crashed onto the rooftop of the building causing a fire. there is no indication of anything more than that. this is all very preliminary and these situations evolve very quickly as we know. that is all...

Pads at the river level, in fact those pads go out over the rive river. they couldnt get to either of those places and had to land right away. the question is, why? was it weather? was it about mechanics? it could have been. fox five new york has a live report. lets listen. >> the 29th floor of 787, seventh avenue. they said they heard a noise and they felt the ground shaking and they werent sure what was going on and shortly after someone told him to cut their belongings. he said people were ac...

The statue of liberty in the first place. thats what my source says, this was a helicopter that took off from the east side and was headed for the statue of liberty. not sure what else is missing here or why. there are some questions about this. but i mean, i understand why theres questions about this. thats what the the source is saying. so we do know this was a private helicopter, there was a mechanical failure on board, the pilot attempted and emergency landing at 787 seventh avenue. that res...

Thats a part of the investigation. >> neil: thank you for coming in. we have jackie deangelis also out in the scene. what is it looking like where you are, jackie? >> good afternoon, neil. what i want to say on the ground here is how amazingly orderly everything has been. after the presser with the mayor and the fdny and nypd, the streets are starting to open up now. pedestrian traffic is starting to walk through. as you mentioned, there was a crash here around 2:00. the helicopter landing on th...

If you are standing in times square, lets say at 42nd street in the middle of the concrete canyons right in the crosswords cross roads of the world, if you look north a helicopter has crashed into one of those buildings and its this one right here. its hard to see. it says 787, is that right? you can see it here. at the bottom, center of your screen above. we dont know thats the world to mike glover building, we know that for us at least getting helicopters up at the moment is a difficult thing,...

Fire atop 787 7th avenue across the street. emergency personnel responded as dan said very quickly and fdny personnel put out the fire. at this point we have one confirmed fatality and the individual is believed to be the pilot of a privately-owned helicopter. at 1:32, the pilot talk off and 11 minutes later crashed on the roof across the street here. right now, fbi, intelligence bureau is working with the faa to get more information on the pilot. we tend to briefly identify the aircraft, the fl...

>> because everybody know what happened in september -- >> were you here? >> no. so we just come up a few months ago, and we were very afraid and scary, and we dont know what happened. >> so as i understand it nobody was hurt in the building. there was a fatality, we believe perhaps the helicopter pilot. we dont know. he was trying to make an emergency landing and the weather conditions are obviously terrible. had you had drills, practice for something like this to happen? fire, evacuation? >> a...

Again, confirming at least one injury at this point, and a helicopter on top of a building. its between 51st and 52nd street along 7th avenue here in manhattan of the. >> all right, tom. we are going to continue. please let us know if you have any additional information here. the latest from the fdnys twitter feed is that its a helicopter has crash landed. they point out, of course, there that the weather is particularly bad today in new york. i believe ali velshi, are you here? >> im hearing an...

May recall back in 2006 we had a small plane crash into a high-rise on the upper east side. there was a new york yankee on board that plane. thankfully, it appears today this was a forced landing and could not have probably gone any better for the people on board, at least thats the reporting as of this moment. >> yeah. and tom, i think thats so important to underscore. and, again, just for anyone just joining us, we are covering what we now know was a hard landing of a helicopter on top of 787 ...

787 p seventh avenue which is across the street, its a 50 story office building. emergency personnel responded as dan said very quickly and fdny personnel put out the fire. we have one confirmed death, and the individual is believed to be the owner of the helicopter. we know at 1:32 this afternoon, the helicopter took off from the 34th street heliport and 11 minutes later crashed on the roof of the building across the street. right now were working with the faa and ntsb to gather additional info...