Mayor Bill de Blasio struck a deal in 2016 to limit the number of helicopter tours around the city and prohibit them on Sundays.īut the agreement covers only flights out of the downtown Manhattan Heliport at Pier 6.
On June 14, 2001, a chartered Liberty helicopter carrying six finance workers back from a Philadelphia 76ers playoff game crashed in a New Jersey field when a rotor blade clipped a tree in heavy fog.Īnd a Liberty chopper chewed up the side of a small building when it was hit by a strong gust of wind while landing at the West 30th Street helipad Dec. 8, 2009, when a Liberty chopper was flying higher than the company’s 1,000-foot ceiling and an air traffic controller busy on the phone failed to warn the plane’s pilot about aircraft in his path.Īll nine people in the air were killed - a pilot and five Italian tourists on the chopper, and a pilot and two passengers on the plane.Ī Liberty chopper also crashed into the Hudson River on July 7, 2007, when a main rotor blade came apart mid-flight, but the pilot and seven passengers escaped injury and were rescued. Liberty Helicopters has a spotty safety record with four earlier accidents - including a deadly midair collision with a private plane over the Hudson River. Thief crashes helicopter after trying to steal it from Sacramento airport NY man among 3 Army soldiers killed in Alaska helicopter crashģ dead after 2 Army helicopters crash returning from training flightĪrmy ID's 9 killed after Black Hawk helicopters collide during training
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