A passenger on the surviving aircraft involved in the Gold Coast helicopter tragedy tried to alert their pilot of the incoming chopper, seconds before its rotor hit the cockpit window.
New footage, obtained by Seven News, reveals a passenger in the back seat of the descending chopper repeatedly tapping the shoulder of pilot Michael James in an apparent panic, warning of the ascending helicopter that was moving toward it.Seven NewsIt’s the final moment before the aired footage pauses, just seconds before the two helicopters collide in midair.
The crash occurred on the Gold Coast at about 2pm on Monday. The descending chopper, featured in the footage, managed to land on the sandbank despite having major damage to its front windscreen, which was hit by the rotor of the other aircraft.British-born pilot Ashley Jenkinson, 40, Liverpool residents Ron and Diane Hughes, 65 and 57, and Sydney mother Vanessa Tadros, 36, died in the collision.
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