2019 New York helicopter crash
AgustaWestland AW109 · Helicopter crashed onto the roof of a building
From East 34th Street Heliport (6N5) to Linden, New Jersey
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
AgustaWestland AW109
- Aircraft type
- Agustawestland AW109
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N200BX
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From East 34th Street Heliport (6N5)To Linden, New Jersey
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2019 New York helicopter crash occurred on 10 June 2019, when an Agusta A109E Power crashed onto the AXA Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York, causing a fire at the top of the building. Tim McCormack, the pilot, died in the crash. The aircraft was privately owned at the time of the accident.
The flight originated at the East 34th Street Heliport (FAA LID: 6N5) at approximately 1:32 PM EDT bound for Linden, New Jersey. At around 1:43 PM EDT on 10 June 2019, an Agusta A109E Power helicopter crashed onto the roof of the AXA Equitable Center, causing a fire at the top of the building. The first emergency call was made at 1:43 PM. The FDNY has considered the accident a «forced landing». The fire at the top of the skyscraper was quickly extinguished. The helicopter involved in the accident, N200BX, was destroyed. The sole occupant, the pilot, Tim McCormack, died in the incident. Eyewitnesses state that they saw what was probably a fuel leak.
After the incident, the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, briefed the press on the accident. Mayor de Blasio stated that there was no indication that the crash was a terrorist act.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente de helicóptero de Nueva York de 2019” (revision 162472713, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Accidente de helicóptero de Nueva York de 2019
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 162472713 · 2024-09-15 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q64532497
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente de helicóptero de Nueva York de 2019" (page 8963663, revision 162472713), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- "privately owned" in the article's opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.