The Geelong West mother and her son who survived Monday’s helicopter crash in Queensland remain in intensive care as specialists hope to wake up the nine-year-old from an induced coma.
Winnie de Silva, 33, and her nine-year-old son Leon were in one of the two helicopters that collided midair on the Gold Coast about 2pm on Monday.
“She was able to talk and feel better this morning. But our major concern is Leon and when they wake him today.” De Silva’s sister is flying to Brisbane to be with the nine-year-old given Winnie is hospitalised on the Gold Coast.The family is expected to stay in Queensland while the pair recover. Yesterday, de Silva launched an“Thankfully, they are both alive but have a lot of surgery ahead of them, which means the family will need to stay here on the Gold Coast and I won’t be able to return to work,” he wrote.Winnie de Silva and her son Leon.
“The left side of his body is not responding as it should at this stage,” de Silva told this masthead.Tributes have been pouring in for the four people who died in the helicopter crash. Sea World chief helicopter pilot Ashley Jenkinson, 40, has been described as a “legend” and a “true gentleman”.
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