Dramatic video footage captured the second a helicopter crashed after it took off from a restaurant’s helipad in Medellin, Colombia, Monday.
The pilot, copilot and 4 passengers, together with a United States-Colombia twin citizen, survived.
One of the passengers was rushed to a neighborhood hospital and handled for a left leg fracture and lacerations to the physique.
Cell telephone video footage confirmed the Bell 206 helicopter departing for a vacationer flight when it abruptly began to spin uncontrolled. It then got here crashing down and hanging perilously from the aspect of a constructing.
A helicopter transporting vacationers from Hangar 45 restaurant to a neighborhood airport in Medellín, Colombia, crashed Monday afternoon simply seconds after it took off from the constructing’s helipad.
The helicopter was pinned between the aspect of a constructing and an antenna moments after it crashed
Luisa Osorio and her American boyfriend Francisco Salas advised Noticias Caracol that they joined the flight to document content material for social media networks to advertise her singing profession and his YouTube channel and thought they weren’t going to make it out alive.
‘We obtained on. Literally when it was elevating it could not do it fully,’ Osorio stated. ‘It began to spin, to spin in a short time and we stated, ‘We are going to die right here.”
Osorio recalled they had been instructed by the rescuers ‘to not transfer, completely do not to something, do not even breathe’ as they labored on pulling them out.
Salas referred to as his dad and mom again residence within the United States to bid farewell as a result of he thought they had been about to die.
‘I had my telephone and I spoke to my mom,’ he stated. ‘I dialed them and had a video chat with them. I stated goodbye. Even my brother. And it was a really severe second. I simply wished to say goodbye and say thanks to everybody.’
The plane plummeted and crashed into the aspect of a constructing, the place it obtained pinned between the construction and an antenna.
A second video confirmed the pilot climbing out of the helicopter and holding onto a ladder affixed to the antenna.
Residents rushed to the scene and helped the occupants to security.
Dangling excessive up within the air, in some way, everybody on board managed to get out and survive. One of the passengers suffered a leg fracture
The video reveals the helicopter taking off from the roof of Hangar 45, a restaurant within the Medellín neighborhood of Manrique, earlier than it crashed
The pilot, copilot and 4 passengers, together with an American who holds Colombian citizenship, survived
The Medellín Fire Department used a number of cranes to take away the helicopter from the location early Tuesday morning.
The helicopter flight is a part of a eating expertise supplied by Hangar 45, a restaurant situated within the Medellín neighborhood of Manrique.
Customers are charged about $887 for a 12 to fifteen minute flight from Olaya Herrera Airport to the restaurant, the place they’re greeted with a cocktail.
All helicopter flights have been suspended as authorities examine the reason for the crash.