Via Newsday:

A small helicopter that had taken off from Long Island MacArthur Airport for White Plains this morning crashed on a soccer field at Kings Park High School, officials said.

There are at least 50 public schools within a 20-mile radius of MacArthur Airport in Islip, N.Y. And crashes by shoddy helicopters taking off from MacArthur are hardly new.

A quick look at the NTSB's site finds these incidents:

A 1982 crash. (PDF)

A 2002 crash.

An Aug. 3, 1999 crash.

An Aug. 15, 1999 crash.

A 1996 crash.

A 2001 crash.

An April, 20, 2002 crash.

A July, 2000 crash.

A March 10, 2001 crash.

A 1990 crash.

A 1991 crash.

That makes eight helicopter crashes into, or out of, MacArthur Airport in the past seven years (including today's crash.) If Suffolk County, Long Island was still a patch of farm land that would be one thing. But the crashes encompass an area with more than 1 million residents.

It's becoming noticeable.