The pilot of a helicopter was seriously injured following a crash in Santiago, Chile on November 30th.
The helicopter was part of an air ambulance dispatch attempting to transport injured passengers from a car crash. A fire engine arriving to help clipped the blades of the helicopter, causing it to crash.
Footage of the helicopter entering spinning on the ground was captured, before an explosion. Check out the incredible footage below:
Some people online have questioned the authenticity of the clip, but a number of other angles also caught the helicopter's violent spinning and explosion:
Incredibly, the fire engine clipping the chopper happened shortly after another near miss, when a different fire engine nearly struck the helicopter as it attempted to land:
(H/T: LiveLeak)
