Tragedy in Australia: Shocking video of two helicopter crashes reveals more details about the crash

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Tragedy mourned Australia on Monday 2 January, when two helicopters collided in mid-air. The dramatic incident went away four dead Y three injured. Now, a video of the fatal moment.

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The images were shared by 7NEWS, a local media, on their social networks. Also, along with the clip they revealed new details of the investigation.

Although at first the media released a registration of the collision between the two vehicles from the point of view of someone on the ground, this a new video reveals what happened just before inside one of the helicopters.

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Helicopter crash in Australia: a new revealing video

The fateful incident occurred in the region of Gold Coast (Gold Coast) and, in a short time, a first video went viral on the networks causing strong emotions among those who saw it.

However, a new video has been released in the last few hours. Show in more detail what happened in the inside the plane seconds before the tragic collision.

In just 34 seconds, you can see the passengers seated in the rear seats from the helicopter enjoying the view of Main Beach. Another passenger, we see, takes the co-pilot’s seat and is seen to keep on quiet conversation with the pilot.

A few seconds before the dramatic crash, one of those sitting behind watch as a second plane climbs up and heads towards them and then points to it with his finger.

Immediately, try to warn the pilot by repeatedly tapping his back. As seen in the video, it seems that the pilot does not pay attention to it.

When he recognizes that he the clash will be inevitablethis passenger decides to hold on as tightly as possible to the seat in front of him in order to do so protect yourself from the blow.

Finally, it can be seen in the last seconds of the video as the front glass completely shattered by collision.

How was the accident and what could have happened

The fatal accident occurred on Monday afternoon at full holiday season summer in Australia.

The collision occurred when one of the devices was taking off and the other was landing. close to Sea World theme parkin Main Beacha beach on the northern Gold Coast, explained Gary Worrell, an inspector with the Queensland State Police.

One of the helicopters involved managed to land safely on a sandbar. however, the remains from the other device they remained scattered in an area that the police described as “difficult to access”.

“It’s a difficult scene,” the official said. And he explained: “For the area in which it is located, in a sand bankit was difficult to access for our emergency services to arrive at the scene to manage it properly”.

The four people died and the three others seriously injured they were all passengers crashed helicopter.

For their part, five of the six people of the other aircraftwho made an emergency landing, suffered minor injuries.

The Australian Bureau of Transport Safety is in charge of carrying out the related investigations into the fact.

In the last few hours, Angus Mitchell, chief commissioner of the ATSB, spoke to the press again and offered new perspectives on catastrophe.

“It seems that the the main rotor blade of the take-off helicopter collided with the forward cabin of the descending helicoptercausing considerable damage. We don’t know if that was the first point of impact as we haven’t determined it. But it’s a start,” she said.

Source: Clarin

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