A pilot crash-landed a medical helicopter without casualties in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia. The helicopter avoided a web of power lines and buildings as the aircraft hit the street and slid into bushes outside a church.
None of the four people on board, including an infant, sustained life-threatening injuries, Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy M. Bernhardt said at a press conference, adding that he was eager to shake the pilot’s hand for getting the helicopter down the way they did.
The infant was taken to a hospital as authorities worked to notify the child’s family, Bernhardt said. The flight originated out of state. Jerrell Saunders, 28, said he had was walking from his work in maintenance at an apartment building nearby when he saw the helicopter “just floating, like real low, like extremely low, like it could land on the building that I work at.”
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