A flying instructor is dead and his teenage student is seriously injured after a helicopter crash at a busy metropolitan airport.

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Emergency services were called to Birch Street, near Bankstown Airport in Sydney's southwest, about 1:30pm on Friday after reports of the crash.

The Robinson R22 aircraft was undergoing a training flight with an instructor and a 19-year-old student pilot when it hit the ground, the transport safety bureau said.

Images of the site show the helicopter split in two and an adjacent car with its boot caved in.

"When the first crews arrived on scene they found a male patient still in the helicopter deceased," NSW Ambu

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