An instructor has died, and a teenage student pilot is in a critical condition after the helicopter conducting a training flight hurtled towards powerlines, crashing onto a busy street in Sydney’s south-west on Friday afternoon.

Footage obtained by Nine News shows the moment the helicopter began hurtling towards the street, just outside Bankstown Airport, crashing into a tree and then a car below, before concerned locals rushed over to help.

Emergency services were called to the scene about 1.30pm after reports of a helicopter crash.

A male instructor was treated by paramedics, but was unable to be revived and died at the scene.

The scene of the helicopter crash on Birch Street, Bankstown. Credit: Sitthixay Ditthavong

The 19-year-old male, the student pilot, was also treated for

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