Nine-year-old Leon has been unconscious in Brisbane Children’s Hospital with brain trauma since Monday’s crash. 7NEWS
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Moment tourist raises alarm seconds before fatal helicopter crash.His mother Winnie De Silva, 33, is also awake and in intensive care on the Gold Coast with two broken legs, a damaged left knee, a broken right shoulder and a broken collarbone.
Sea World Helicopters owner and director John Orr-Campbell has broken his silence to pay tribute to the victims. “I knew Ash personally for nine years. He was a fine man and a standout pilot with 6,210 hours of flying to his name,” he said. The footage obtained by 7NEWS, shot from inside the cockpit, appears to show a passenger trying to warn James about the other helicopter by tapping him on the shoulder.
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