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Footage Appears To Show Helicopter Flying Erratically Before Manhattan Crash

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​Around 2 pm on Friday, reports came in of an aircraft crash at the top of the AXA Equitable Center, a 750-foot skyscraper in midtown Manhattan. News outlets are reporting that the helicopter pilot has been killed. 

No footage of the moment of the crash has surfaced, but people on the ground have shared footage of what appears to be a serious fire on the building's roof:

 

A Twitter user reported that he felt a jolt and then his building was evacuated:

 

Footage uploaded to Twitter shows a helicopter flying erratically over the river near Manhattan, but it has not been confirmed that it is the same helicopter that ultimately crashed: 

 

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrived at the scene not long after the crash, and said there are no indications it was anything other than an accident:

 




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