Australia helicopter collision: Officials say need to know what happened in cockpits

A mid-air collision between two helicopters on Monday, near Sea World in Queensland, Australia, killed a British couple and two Australians. Queensland state police said that the pilot and three passengers, who were between 36 and 65 years old, died at the scene.

The accident happened near Main Beach, a popular tourist spot on the Gold Coast, and directly across from the Sea World resort.

A 10-year-old boy was seriously hurt, and his condition is said to be critical. Another 9-year-old boy who was seriously hurt is said to be stable. A 33-year-old woman was in critical but stable condition, police said.



Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell on Tuesday stated they need to know what was going on in those two cockpits at the time. They are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. From the footage, they have seen and the damage they have seen, it looks like the main rotor blade of the helicopter that was taking off, hit the front cockpit of another helicopter.

Mitchell further said that it happened less than 20 seconds after one helicopter took off from a sandbar and hit another plane that was landing. All the people who died or were seriously hurt were in the helicopter that was going up. It crashed just seconds after its main rotor blade hit the cockpit of the other plane. Investigators are working to pick up the pieces of the wreckage and will talk to witnesses and people who made it out of the plane over the next few days.

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