A crane lifts a helicopter out of the water after it crashed into the Hudson River, May 15, 2019. Officials said that the pilot was treated for a non-life-threatening injury. There were no passengers aboard the aircraft. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick) A helicopter is hoisted by crane from the East River onto a barge, March 12, 2018, in New York. The pilot escaped the crash after the aircraft flipped upside down in the water killing several passengers, officials said. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) FILE -- In this Aug. 10, 2009 file photo, the wreckage of a helicopter that was hit by an airplane and crashed in the Hudson River is repositioned by a crane on a pier in Hoboken, NJ, (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file) A smoldering high-rise after it was struck by a small aircraft with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard on Oct. 11, 2006 on Manhattan's Upper East Side, killing at least four people. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews) Personnel surround the wreckage of a WNBC-TV news helicopter on a roof in the Flatbush, Brooklyn on May 4, 2004. The helicopter clipped a building, spun and crashed on a rooftop. No one was seriously injured in the crash. (AP Photo/Scout Tufankjian) View of New York Airways helicopter crash atop Pan American bldg., 200 Parkave., in Manhattan, New York City on May 16, 1977. Police and firemen are at the scene. (AP Photo/Hal Goldenberg) This was this scene after an Army B-25 bomber crashed into the 78th and 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945 in New York. (AP Photo) NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - Monday afternoon’s fatal helicopter crash at 787 7th Avenue in Manhattan isn’t the first aviation accident New York City has had to deal with.
- In May 2019, a helicopter crashed into the Hudson River near 30th Street and the Lincoln Tunnel. No-one suffered any serious injuries.
- In March 2018, a sightseeing helicopter crashed into the East River near the Upper East Side, killing five people.
- In 2009, nine people were killed when a tour helicopter and a small airplane collided over the Hudson River.
- In 2006, New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor were killed when the light aircraft they were flying crashed into a building on the Upper East Side.
- In 2004, a helicopter belonging to WNBC-TV crashed in Flatbush, Brooklyn. No-one was killed.
- In 1986, traffic reporter Jane Dornacker was killed when the helicopter she was reporting from suffered mechanical failure mid-broadcast and crashed into the Hudson River.
- In 1977, a rotor blade broke off of a helicopter on the roof of the former Pan Am (now MetLife) Building, killing five people
- In 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, killing all three members of the flight crew and 11 more people on the ground.