One person died after a helicopter crash-landed Monday afternoon onto the roof of a building in midtown Manhattan and then caught fire.
BNP Paribas CEO Jean-Yves Fillion told CNBC that the 2,000 bank employees working in the building were all evacuated safely. The firm occupies multiple floors up to the 33rd floor.
The aircraft had taken off from the helipad at West 34th Street on the Hudson River and planned to go in the direction of the Statue of Liberty, which is several miles south of there, according to sources.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives at the scene after a helicopter crashed atop a building in Times Square and caused a fire in the Manhattan borough of New York, New York, U.S., June 10, 2019., in a prepared statement said, "FAA air traffic controllers did not handle the flight."
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