Terrifying moment Brazilian police helicopter crash lands on road while airlifting motorist injured in truck crash
By Adry Torres For Dailymail.com[1]
Published: 20:20, 9 January 2024 | Updated: 20:30, 9 January 2024
This is the moment a police helicopter airlifting an injured motorist crash landed on a Brazilian road moments after taking off.
The accident took place Monday in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais after the Federal Highway Police responded to an accident involving two tractor trailers and three trucks that left each of its drivers with injuries.
Cellphone footage recorded by a resident showed the Federal Highway Police helicopter taking off from the road where the collision had taken place earlier in the day and nearly crashing into a home.
The video clip showed the aircraft spinning out of control before it disappeared.
A Brazilian Federal Highway Police helicopter transporting a motorist who was injured in an accident involving two tractor trailers and three trucks nearly crashed into a home before it crashed landed on a road Monday on in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte
A vehicle’s camera captured the moment a police helicopter airlifting a driver injured in a truck collision crashed on a road moments after it took off in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte.
None of the six occupants in the aircraft were injured
Two tractor trailers and three trucks were involved in an accident on a road in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on Monday, leaving three drivers with injuries, including one who was in the police helicopter that crashed on a road while he was being airlifted
A second video recorded by a camera mounted on a vehicle showed the helicopter crash landing several yards behind it.
Federal Highway Police commander Aurelio Leal, who was in the aircraft, said the accident was caused after the helicopter experienced a rotation loss.
‘There were six of us,’ Leal said, as quoted by Brazilian news outlet G1. ‘Everyone was fine, thank God. The location was the best possible (to land) after we had the rotation loss. Unfortunately, the tail hit the fence.’
The injured truck driver was not hurt and was later transported in an ambulance Joao XXIII Hospital.
Elisa Loures told G1 was in her home with her son when she heard the helicopter hovering over her apartment.
It clipped the side of the building, causing tiles to fall off her wall.
Police said that the accident was caused after the helicopter suffered rotation loss
First responder removed a driver from a wrecked cabin after a crash involving two trailers and three trucks in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on Monday
‘To avoid my son being injured, I jumped on top of him,’ she said. ‘The helicopter left with a strange notice and out of nowhere everting started to fall.’
Vitor Fabiano was behind the wheels of his vehicle and saw the helicopter’s forced landing.
‘A scare, right? Right in front of me,’ he said. ‘It was only a matter of second that I did not pass by. It was really God.’
The crash involving the three trucks took place on the west side of the Minas Gerais city of Belo Horizonte.
A truck transporting ore when it collided with one of the vehicles.
A 57-year-old driver was trapped in his cabin and was removed.