A notorious French gangster broke out of prison Sunday morning, when three heavily armed accomplices landed a helicopter in the jail courtyard and flew off with him, according to local reports.

Redoine Faïd, 46, had been serving a 25-year sentence at a suburban Paris jail for a 2010 failed robbery in which a 26-year-old police officer was killed.

On Sunday morning, three men armed with AK-47s landed a helicopter in the Réau prison courtyard, disabled security cameras and flew off with the French-Algerian gangster in just a few minutes without injuring anyone, prison officials told Le Monde.

The helicopter was set afire and found by police hours later, a source told the paper.

This is the second time the career criminal has pulled off a daring jailbreak.

In April 2013, he broke out of a different jail by taking four prison guards hostage and using explosives hidden in tissue packets to blast his way through the gates.

He was nabbed six weeks later in a hotel outside Paris.

Prior to the 2010 failed robbery that killed a young policewoman named Aurélie Fouquet, Faïd had served 10 years behind bars for a series of robberies. He’d been released on parole in 2009.

That same year, he wrote a book describing growing up in Paris’s notoriously crime-ridden suburbs and starting his life of delinquency.