"A helicopter spun out of control and crashed into a pedestrian bridge along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach on Saturday afternoon, horrifying nearby beachgoers and sending five people to the hospital. The crash was reported just after 2 p.m. Oct. 11 across the street from the oceanfront Hyatt resort, when the chopper began to spiral and then slammed into a stairwell leading to a bridge that connects a beachfront parking lot to the hotel. A Cars N Copters on the Coast event was scheduled for the area on Sunday, and a helicopter landing party was underway on Saturday."
"Video footage obtained by news freelancer OnScene.TV, below, shows the helicopter descending toward the street when it suddenly began spinning and then hit the stairwell to the bridge crossing PCH. Part of the helicopter broke off before the crash. People watching and filming the chopper from the sand as it approached were astonished, some videos show, repeatedly hollering, Oh my God, after it began to spiral and then hit the cement."
"He was standing on the bridge, about 100 feet away, he said, when the crash occurred. I noticed when the second one came, it was spinning weird, he said. I'm like, Hmm, I wonder if it's doing a trick.' Then, I saw it spinning even faster, and I'm like, Nope, that thing is crashing.' As he observed, First the tail rotor snapped. Next thing I know I see something looked like it hit the main rotor blade."
A helicopter lost control and struck a pedestrian bridge stairwell across from the oceanfront Hyatt on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach shortly after 2 p.m. on Oct. 11. The chopper began spinning, part of it broke off, and it slammed into the stairwell connecting a beachfront parking lot to the hotel. Two people aboard and three people on the street, reportedly including a child, were taken to hospital. Video shows the descent and sudden spin. An event called Cars N Copters was scheduled nearby and a landing party was underway. Eyewitnesses reported the tail rotor snapping and subsequent impact with the main rotor.
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