Mobile phone footage shows passenger Edward Swart tapping the shoulder of Sea World helicopter pilot Michael James, trying to warn him of the impending disaster.
– are still in hospital with extensive injuries.
Edward and Marle Swart with Elmarie and Riaan Steenberg before the Sea World helicopter tragedy on the Gold Coast. “We were just hanging midair with the helicopter console in shreds,” Swart said. “I saw the blood as we were coming down … and I think we probably spun twice.” More than a month after the incident, she continues to find pieces of debris underneath her skin that require removal by nurses.
New Zealand friends Elmarie Steenberg and Marle Swart in the aftermath of the Sea World helicopter crash.
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