LATEST: - Helicopter crashed onto roof of Midtown Manhattan building in hard landing. - The crash sparked a fire that has since been extinguished. - One person dead, according to police official. - No indication of terrorism, senior FAA official says.
One person died when a helicopter crashed onto the roof of a Midtown Manhattan building in a hard landing on Monday, filling the air with smoke and clogging the city streets with ambulances, according to police and fire officials.The crash sparked a fire which has since been extinguished, the New York Police Department said.
"People who were in the building said they felt the building shake," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters. "We ran down. I think we were the first floor to evacuate, actually, because we felt it so quickly," Farrell told ABC News.
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