UPDATE: Sea World's Chief Pilot Ashley Jenkinson has been identified as one of the four victims killed in the mid-air collision between two helicopters on the Gold Coast near Sea World. 9News
Members of the public tried to pull people from the wreckage after the two aircraft, both operated by Sea World Helicopters, collided about 2pm .
The four people killed and three rushed to hospital were all from the crashed helicopter, Queensland Police Inspector Gary Worrell said. "Australia is shocked by the news of the terrible and tragic helicopter incident today on the Gold Coast," Albanese said on Twitter. Footage of the incident recorded by a witness appeared to confirm that, while other footage showed wreckage strewn across a sand island close to the coast.
Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman Jayney Shearman said six patients suffering minor injuries, mainly glass shrapnel from the impact, were also taken to hospital. "We see so many choppers in the air here on the Gold Coast Broadwater but in my memory, I cannot remember anything like this ever occurring," he told the radio station.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has launched an investigation into the fatal crash.
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